Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the
twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of
colonialism as an inevitable transition from a world of empires to
one of nations-a world in which self-determination was synonymous
with nation-building-obscure just how radical this change was.
Drawing on the political thought of anticolonial intellectuals and
statesmen such as Nnamdi Azikiwe, W.E.B Du Bois, George Padmore,
Kwame Nkrumah, Eric Williams, Michael Manley, and Julius Nyerere,
this important new account of decolonization reveals the full
extent of their unprecedented ambition to remake not only nations
but the world. Adom Getachew shows that African, African American,
and Caribbean anticolonial nationalists were not solely or even
primarily nation-builders. Responding to the experience of
racialized sovereign inequality, dramatized by interwar Ethiopia
and Liberia, Black Atlantic thinkers and politicians challenged
international racial hierarchy and articulated alternative visions
of worldmaking. Seeking to create an egalitarian postimperial
world, they attempted to transcend legal, political, and economic
hierarchies by securing a right to self-determination within the
newly founded United Nations, constituting regional federations in
Africa and the Caribbean, and creating the New International
Economic Order. Using archival sources from Barbados, Trinidad,
Ghana, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, Worldmaking after
Empire recasts the history of decolonization, reconsiders the
failure of anticolonial nationalism, and offers a new perspective
on debates about today's international order.
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