Seychelles Global Citizen

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ROWING COMPETITION for power and influence in the Indian Ocean, the world's primary energy and trade seaway, placed the Seychelles, a small peaceful archipelago nation, at the center of superpower rivalry during the Cold War.
No one is better qualified to tell this story than Sir James R. Mancham, a lawyer who became the first President of the island nation east of Africa when Britain gave up its rule of the idyllic islands in 1976. Overthrown less than a year later in a violent Marxist coup, Mancham was fortunate to survive the turbulent times that enabled unscrupulous men to seize power by force throughout the post-colonial world. Sir James prospered in his forced exile, and when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, he returned as "an apostle of reconciliation" to work for his nation alongside the regime that deposed him.
Mancham's autobiography is about the resilience of the human spirit in the midst of the sweeping changes to the world after World War II. Globalization has... Tovább

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ROWING COMPETITION for power and influence in the Indian Ocean, the world's primary energy and trade seaway, placed the Seychelles, a small peaceful archipelago nation, at the center of superpower rivalry during the Cold War.
No one is better qualified to tell this story than Sir James R. Mancham, a lawyer who became the first President of the island nation east of Africa when Britain gave up its rule of the idyllic islands in 1976. Overthrown less than a year later in a violent Marxist coup, Mancham was fortunate to survive the turbulent times that enabled unscrupulous men to seize power by force throughout the post-colonial world. Sir James prospered in his forced exile, and when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, he returned as "an apostle of reconciliation" to work for his nation alongside the regime that deposed him.
Mancham's autobiography is about the resilience of the human spirit in the midst of the sweeping changes to the world after World War II. Globalization has not left even the remotest islands untouched. However, his story is more than a political treatise about the conflict for power in the Indian Ocean and about Seychelles' internal political turmoil, it is also the story of a colorful human being who has been dubbed "The Trudeau of the East" and "The Ernest ^ Hemmingway of the Indian Ocean."
SIR JAMES R. MANCHAM was bom on August 11, 1939 in Mahe, Seychelles. After being called to the bar in London, Sir James returned to Seychelles to practice as a barrister and attomey at law. His return coincided with the decision of the British government to give independence to its colonies. At that time, Mancham founded the Democratic Party (SOP). In 1976, he won the popular vote to become the first President of the Seychelles. Mancham promoted tourism to the Seychelles by first arranging for the building of an intemational airport. He is known as the man who put Seychelles on the tourism map.
After he was overthrown by a coup in 1977, he lived in exile until the end of the cold war which saw the demise of the Soviet Union. Whilst in exile, he was successfully involved in several business ventures, and married Catherine Olsen, an Australian joumalist working in London. In 1993, he returned to the Seychelles as the "apostle of national reconciliation." Mancham is the author of Paradise Raped and War on America Seen from the Indian Ocean.
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Seychelles Qlobal Citizen
The Autobiography of the Founding President of the Republic of Seychelles ,
by James R. Mancham
"James Mancham is the first President of Seychelles, one of several firsts » achieved by this remarkable man. He is ambitious, politically shrewd, and a ; devoted Seychellois. He has the flamboyance of a Trudeau, the political deter- ? mination of a Lee Kuan Yew, and the stamina for travel of a Kissinger." i
—Alan Bally, The Times ofLondon'\
"Mancham hailed, 'International Ambassador for Peace and Goodwill'." P
—Seychelles Nation
"I admire Sir James' tenacity and even more than that, his historical reflections as an objective view rather than the subjective. I have great admiration for his achievements; best of all, his devout interest in global peace."
—Reverend Delmer Tripp Robinson, ThD, PhD, EdDM, Archbishop (Emeritus), The Anglican Church USA
"Sir James is a unique Seychellois and global citizen. The traces left behind by his journey show he is a man of grandeur d'esprit, joix de vivre, compassion, insight, inborn charisma, and leadership. When a man of such caliber speaks, wise men listen."
— J. C. Ahweng, PhD, University of Nagoya, Japan
"Sir James R. Mancham, the first President of the Republic of Seychelles, has become a visionary and passionate spokesman for the peoples of the small island states, a trail-blazer for peace across the oceans for he is truly a 'Global Citizen' and a powerful advocate of our vision of 'one human family under God'."
—^Jose de Venecia, Five-time Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives, Founding Chairman of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties ¦ (ICAPP), and Chairman-Emeritus of the Universal Peace Federation (UPF)
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