Globalizing independence struggles of Lusophone Africa : anticolonial and postcolonial politics /
Lusophone Africa has been neglected in Anglophone historiography. With the exceptions of a narrow set of episodes, figures, and interpretations, all of which appear in a fragmented set of journal articles, its struggles against Portuguese colonialism have remained outside the grand narratives of dec...
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London ; New York :
Zed Books,
2024.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Natalia Telepneva (University of Strathclyde, UK) and Rui Lopes (Institute of Contemporary History, NOVA-FSCH/IN2PAST, Portugal) Part I. Ideas and Rhetoric of Liberation Chapter 1. Bourgeois Revolutionaries: Holden Roberto, American Anticommunism, and the Angolan Revolutionary Government in Exile
- Alexander Marino (United States Army War College, USA) Chapter 2. "Our Country or Death": Reconstructing the Mozambique Revolutionary Committee's (COREMO) Political Ideology through its Public Discourse
- Lazlo Passemiers (University of the Free State, South Africa) Chapter 3. "If you want to call it Marxism, you may call it Marxism"
- Amilcar Cabral on Class and National Liberation
- Rita Narra (NOVA University, Portugal) Part II. Networks and Strategies of Solidarity Chapter 4. The Year after Africa: How the UN Response to Angola and Goa Militarized Decolonization
- Joseph Parrott (Ohio State University, USA) Chapter 5. The Struggle for Southern Africa: Constructing Imaginaries Around the Unliberated Region
- Ana Moledo (Leipzig Universiy, Germany) Chapter 6. Fighting for Neutrality: The Sino-Soviet Split, Afro-Asian Conferences and the Liberation Movements of the Portuguese Colonies
- Juliao Soares Sousa (University of Coimbra, Portugal) Chapter 7. The Canadian Broad Left and the Anti-Colonial Struggle at Home and Abroad: The Case of the Toronto Committee for the Liberations of Portugal's African Colonies
- Marcal de Menezes Paredes (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Chapter 8. The Condor Spreads Its Wings: The South American Secret Missions in Africa after the Carnation Revolution
- Gisele Lobato (Interuniversity Doctoral Program in History, Portugal) Part III. The Economy and Policies of Independence Chapter 9. Beyond "Flag Independence": The Decolonization Committee and Foreign Interests in the Portuguese Colonies, 1965-1974
- Aurora Santos (NOVA-FSCH/IN2PAST, Portugal) Chapter 10. Polish Relations with Angola, 1975-1989: Transfer of Knowledge and Military Assistance with Limited Economic Outcome
- Przemyslaw Gasztold (Warsaw University, Poland) Chapter 11. Globalising Violence and Resistance in São Tomé and Príncipe
- Inês Nascimento Rodrigues (University of Coimbra, Portugal) and Gerhard Seibert (Centro de Estudos Internacionais, Portugal) Chapter 12. The Making of Independent Cabo Verde: Militant Non-alignment, Active Neutrality and Fading Anti-imperialism
- Victor Barros (NOVA-FSCH/IN2PAST, Portugal), Osvaldino Monteiro (University of Cabo Verde, Cape Verde), Suzano Costa (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Chapter 13. (Re)framing Independence: The Battle for Guinea-Bissau's Film Culture, 1975-80
- Paulo Cunha (University of Beira Interior, Portugal), Catarina Laranjeiro (NOVA-FSCH/IN2PAST, Portugal), Rui Lopes (NOVA-FSCH/IN2PAST, Portugal), Bibliography Index