📣PUBLICATION DAY! '📣 The Ideological Scramble for Africa' is based on documents from 46 archives on 3 continents. It shows how the pursuit of anticolonial modernity, not Cold War competition, shaped international relations in the 1950s and 1960s. Ask your library to buy it!
📣📣 Book Review Symposium
"Introduction: Visions of African Unity: New Perspectives on the History of Pan-Africanism and African Unification Projects"
by @FrankGerits & Matteo Grilli ⬇️ https://t.co/8OcEPqwLs7
@FrankGerits#vau@UFSUpdates "african unity had a regional, as well as international dimension" "project's aims 2 understanding different visions of politicians, organisations & liberation fighters"
Professor Toyin Falola f. @UTAustin today @UFSweb#vau "the nationalism of my generation that drove pan africanism had no S, today we have to speak of af. Nationalisms & afro-futurism" #ethiopia founded Univ. Adwa as remembrance of its victory over Italy in19th c.
@myramt taught us about the difficult challenges the late president Seretse Khama faced during the frontline states' solidarity w. The liberation movements fighting against white-minority regimes rules #vau@UFSweb