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African Decolonization (Paperback)
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African Decolonization (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary History
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Discovery Miles: 14 900
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Before the 1950s, almost all of Africa was controlled by European
empires or white settler states. Since then the empires and settler
states have gone, with the exception of South Africa, to be
replaced by more than 50 sovereign African states, the largest
addition to the comity of nations since the consolidation of the
nation state.;Providing an introduction to the transformation of
Africa since World War II, this study assesses to what extent the
change of Africa resulted from deliberate imperial policy, from the
pressures of African nationalism or the superpower rivalries of the
USA and USSR.;It analyzes what powers were transferred and to whom
they were given. Pan-Africanism is singled out, in a chapter
devoted to its rise and fall, as significant not only in its own
right, but as indicating the transformation of expectations when
the new rulers, who had endorsed its geopolitical logic before
taking power, settled into the routines of government.;The meaning
of de-colonization is contested throughout Africa and beyond, not
just by historians and social scientists, but by all the continent.
It is the purpose of this book to show that this living past
pervades the present.
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