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From Our Own Correspondent: Island Life

Weekend Edition 12 Oct 2013: Island Life

12/10/2013

Island Life

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Tales of culture, commerce and control in Seychelles, Reunion, the UK, Italy and Nigeria

Tales of an import boom in Seychelles, Reunion's maloya music reborn, British car boot sales, Italy's Fascist-era prison island and Abuja -an  island of ruined mansions in Nigeria

Tim Ecott traces an import boom, as well as the beginnings of inter-island trade, as Seychelles redesigns its economy; Robin Denselow learns why the French state once tried to silence the traditional music of its overseas territory Reunion; Christine Finn samples a classic British boot fair to find that the UK's not nearly as insular as it once was; Alan Johnson visits the Tremiti archipelago just off Italy, housing what was once a Fascist-era prison island for gay men; and Alex Preston breaks out of the Nigerian elite's bubble in capital city Abuja - an island of rotting, uninhabited mansions for corrupt grandees, amid an ocean of shanty towns.

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