Cassandra Pybus discusses the African diaspora in Oceania, specifically in eastern Australia during the American War of Independence (1775-1783). Founded as a British penal colony, New South Wales received prisoners convicted of petty crimes in England. Pybus uses London parochial and judicial records and New South Wales archives to trace the origins of blacks in the penal colony, and she sketches profiles of individuals such as Billy Blue, who fought in two wars. After leaving the United States of America in 1782, Blue went to London, where he did various jobs and ended up being arrested and convicted for stealing sugar. The majority of the Africans convicted of crimes and sent to Australia and New Zealand experienced some sort of enslavement. Pybus unveils the complex diasporic processes that brought Africans, both voluntarily and involuntarily, to Oceania.  
With regard to the Indian Ocean region, Klara Boyer-Rossol writes about human trafficking between Mozambique and Madagascar, which increased significantly during the nineteenth century while the slave trade was gradually becoming illegal. In the chapter she has contributed, she shows how the slave trade routes between East Africa and the island of Madagascar led to the emergence of new sociocultural groups on the latter: the Makoas and Masombikas, whose names derive from generic terms used to refer to people whose geographic or ethnic origin is in what is present-day Mozambique. In addition to emphasizing the dynamics of international trafficking, the author examines the formation of the Makoa identity on the island and the Makoan struggle to return to the African continent.