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The United States and Decolonization in West Africa, 1950-1960 (Hardcover, New title)
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The United States and Decolonization in West Africa, 1950-1960 (Hardcover, New title)
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
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A history of America's tangled involvement in the transition of
British and French West African territories to statehood. As an
investigation of America's response to the decolonization process
in West Africa, The United States and Decolonization in West
Africa, 1950-60 fills several important gaps. The history of
America's involvement in Africa remains understudied. This book
focuses on a neglected decade when the "wind of change" swept
across Africa. Critical of the traditional "nationalist"
interpretation of the decolonization process in Africa, the author
begins his book by placing the transition of British and French
West African territories to statehood with a neocolonialist
framework. In doing so, he abandons the conventional definitions
and usages of "independence" and "decolonization", and makes a
compelling case that these are two related but different phenomena.
Nwaubani argues that the United States was not a catalyst in the
transition process in West Africa, but rather acted in a
neocolonialist fashion itself. He also gives a nuanced appraisal of
the Cold War, demonstrating that it was not as important as
popularly believed in determining US behavior in Africa. The
primary focus of the book is on West Africa, with case
studiesfocusing on the Ewe, Ghana [including the Volta dam
project], and Guinea. But the broad issues discussed are framed in
the larger context of sub-Saharan Africa, and against the backdrop
of the larger debates about the nature of post-1945 United States
diplomacy. Ebere Nwaubani is a member of the History Department,
University of Colorado at Boulder.
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