Publications
Books and monographs
2010 Becoming the Other, Being Oneself: Constructing Identities in a Connected World. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
2009 Comores: guide culturel. Moroni: Komedit. (Revised version of first edition).
1998 Comores: guide culturel. Moroni: Union Européenne/Programme Régional Culturel Bantu.
1993 The Complete Guide to the Southwest Indian Ocean: Comores, Madagascar, Mauritius, Réunion, Seychelles. Argelès-sur-Mer, France:
Cornelius Books.
1986 Zaffer Pe Sanze: Ethnic Identity and Social Change among the Ilois in Mauritius. Vacoas, Mauritius: KMLI.
Refereed articles and chapters
2011 “Yemen: The Resurgent Secessionism in the South,” in A. Pavkovi? & P. Radan, eds, Ashgate Research Companion to Secession. Farnham: Ashgate.
2011 with Moussa Said Ahmed “Two fisherman’s songs from Ngazidja, Comoro Islands.” Wasafiri, 26 (2): 171-175.
2011 "Hybridity, Belonging, and Mobilities: the Intercontinental Peripatetics of a Transnational Community," Population, Space and Place, 17: 167–178. doi: 10.1002/psp.609
2008 “L’identité comorienne dans le protectorat britannique de Zanzibar,” Ya Mkobe, 16-17: 75-84
2008 “Hadramis, Shimalis and Muwalladin: negotiating cosmopolitan identities between the Swahili coast and southern Yemen.” Journal of Eastern African Studies, 2 (1): 44-59.
2007 “What came first, the nation or the state? Political process in the Comoro Islands.” Africa, 77 (4): 582-605.
2007 “The Comorians, the British, the French and the Arabs: struggle for status in the Protectorate of Zanzibar.” ZIFF Journal, 4:89-98.
2005 “Comoros.” In T. Leonard (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Developing World. New York: Routledge.
2005 “Mauritius.” In T. Leonard (ed.) Encyclopedia of the Developing World. New York: Routledge.
2005 “Mimetic Structuration, or, easy steps to building an acceptable identity.” History and Anthropology, 16, 2: 187-210.
2004 “Yemen.” In Carl Skutsch (ed.) Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities. New York: Routledge.
2004 “Comoros.” In Carl Skutsch (ed.) Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities. New York: Routledge.
2004 “Mauritius.” In Carl Skutsch (ed.) Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities. New York: Routledge.
2004 “Mauritius: Ramgoolam, Seewoosagur (1900-85), government of.” In K.
Shillington (ed.) Encyclopedia of African History. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn.
2004 “Réunion: 19th Century to 1946.” In K. Shillington (ed.) Encyclopedia of African History. New York: Fitzroy Dearborn.
2002 “From Moroni to Mukalla: Hadhramis in Ngazidja (Comoros Islands) and in the Hadhramhout.” Journal des Africanistes, 72 (2): 111-122.
2002 “Les aspects économiques du grand mariage de Ngazidja.” Autrepart,
23: 157-171.
2000 “Réflexions sur l’histoire du peuplement de Ngazidja.” Ya Mkobe,
6-7: 19-25.