I receive funding from the MacArthur Foundation Program on “Real Economies in Africa,” managed by the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA, Dakar) for my proposal “Mapping a Contact-Zone,” in the southwest of the Indian Ocean. I worked with two scholars, Christiane Rakotolahy and Abdul Maliq Simone, to join. We explored the networks of transnational identities and the processes of cultural mutations and (dis)continuity developed between the islands of the southwest: Madagascar, Seychelles, the Comoros, Mauritius, and Réeunion. The findings were published by CODESRIA.