Transnational Histories of Southern Africa’s Liberation Movements
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Transnational Histories of Southern Africa’s Liberation Movements

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Transnational Histories of Southern Africa’s Liberation Movements

About this book

Transnational Histories of Southern Africa's Liberation Movements offers new perspectives on southern Africa's wars of national liberation, drawing on extensive oral historical and archival research.

Assuming neither the primacy of nationalist loyalties as they exist today nor any single path to liberation, the book unpicks any notion of a straightforward imposition of Cold War ideologies or strategic interests on liberation wars. This approach adds new dimensions to the rich literatures on the Global Cold War and on solidarity movements. The contributors trace the ways that ideas and practices were made, adopted, and circulated through time and space through a focus on African soldiers, politicians and diplomats. The book also asks what motivated the men and women who crossed borders to join liberation movements, how Cold War influences were acted upon, interpreted and used, and why certain moments, venues and relations took on exaggerated importance. The connections among liberation movements, between them and their hosts, and across an extraordinarily diverse set of external actors reveal surprising exchanges and lasting legacies that have too often been obscured by the assertion of monolithic national histories.

Tracing an extraordinarily diverse set of interactions and exchanges, Transnational Histories of Southern Africa's Liberation Movements will be of great interest to scholars of Southern Africa, Transnational History, the Cold War and African Politics. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Southern African Studies.

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Yes, you can access Transnational Histories of Southern Africa’s Liberation Movements by Jocelyn Alexander,JoAnn McGregor,Blessing-Miles Tendi in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & African History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781032084046
eBook ISBN
9781000750904
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
African History
Index
History

Index

  • Abrams, Philips 16
  • acronyms 1n2
  • Addis Ababa 102
  • African authenticity 25
  • African Daily News 86
  • African diplomats 106
  • Africa News 163
  • African military trainees 53–54
  • African National Congress (ANC): activists in Moscow 220
    • alliance with ZAPU 175–182, 188
    • archives 3
    • bases in Zambia 177
    • Kongwa camp 132
    • and MK 177, 178, 214–15
    • Patriotic Front 178–181
    • perception of better education 56
    • ‘provincialised’ 231
    • relations with ZANU (PF) 181–82
    • Soviet military training 55
    • and the Soviet Union 67
    • Soweto uprising 177 see also uMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
  • African National Council 222
  • African Nationalism (Sithole) 85
  • African Party for Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC) 71
  • African socialism 25
  • African soldiers 48, 50, 191–92
  • African students 34, 35–36, 40
  • African Union for Independent Mozambique (UNAMI) 72
  • Afriforum 188
  • Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Organisation (AAPSO) 69, 84, 220, 222
  • Air Rhodesia Viscount shooting down (1978) 183–84
  • alcohol 150
  • Aldridge, Leo Clinton (Leo Milas) 74, 76
  • Alface, Abílio 165
  • Algeria 76
  • Al...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Citation Information
  7. Notes on Contributors
  8. Introduction: The Transnational Histories of Southern African Liberation Movements
  9. African Uses of the Cold War
  10. African Diplomacy and International Connections
  11. Hosts, Allies and Enemies on the African Front Line
  12. Participant Papers: Making and Remembering Transnational Histories
  13. Epilogue: Liberating Histories
  14. Index