A New Comprehensive History of Mauritius

At half a century interval, two Nobel Prize in Economics, James Meade and Joseph Stiglitz, studied Mauritius Island. Meade highlighted the island's problem of devastating poverty and the population explosion time bomb, the second the 'economic miracle' it achieved by the 21st century, to become one of the top two most successful African nations in terms of its socioeconomic achievements and democracy. Mauritius is also called the Singapore of the Southwestern Indian Ocean. Sydney Selvon has written the most exhaustive and complete history of the island in modern historiography in two volumes totalling over 860 pages. The author also dissects the dangerous game of ethnic politics that the political elite, following in the footsteps of the former colonial masters, continue to utilize to maintain their grip on power and shows the way to another kind of approach as advised by the Truth and Justice Commission in 2011 to reconcile the nation. Currentlly, according to the author, ethnic politics has distorted national history and has barred from the school curriculum the teaching of the national history. A must read for academia concerned with the country's and the region's affairs, strategists, economists, etc. and also for the general public and the Mauritian diapora, as the style is that of the renowned and influent editor and writer that Sydney Selvon is in the media.