Archipelago of 115 islands in the western Indian Ocean, a French and then British colony that became independent within the Commonwealth in 1976.
Survives as Africa's smallest and least populous sovereign state, and one of its most prosperous — the continent's highest per-capita GDP and, by some indices, its leading electoral democracy.
A history of Seychelles from French settlement through British colonial rule to independence.
The standard scholarly history of the Comoros, far more focused than the broad regional survey originally cited.