Ibrahim Sundiata

TL;DR: Sundiata as mentioned in this paper traces the state's troubled path from colonialism to independence, emphasizing the obstacles that separate Equatorial Guinea from complete self-sufficiency, and concludes that "the state's history reflects the history of other developing nations".

TL;DR: Sundiata as discussed by the authors offers a comprehensive history of Fernando Po, explains the continuities between slavery and free contract labor, and challenges standard notions of labor development and progress in various colonial contexts.

TL;DR: Sundiata's most recent work, Brothers and Strangers as mentioned in this paper, provides a masterfully complex and lavishly documented account of how a wide variety of actors used the Liberian crisis as a foil for their own ideas about race, injustice, nationalism, liberation, and honor.

TL;DR: A closer examination reveals labour abuse as very much the product of conditions on Fernando Po itself as discussed by the authors, where black planters on the island shifted from palm oil trading to cocoa cultivation and increasing competition from Europeans resulted in economic crisis in the first years of the twentieth century, with detention of labour and nonpayment of contracts as the outcome.

TL;DR: Sundiata as discussed by the authors traces the state's troubled path from colonialism to independence, emphasizing the obstacles that separate Equatorial Guinea from complete self-sufficiency, and concludes that "the state's history reflects the history of other developing nations".