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Africa's Agitators - Militant Anti-colonialism in Africa and the West, 1918-1939 (Paperback)
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Africa's Agitators - Militant Anti-colonialism in Africa and the West, 1918-1939 (Paperback)
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The period between the two World Wars were troubling years for
colonial empire. Individuals and organizations called for major
reforms and an end to white supremacy and colonial rule,
contributing first to local unrest and protest and then to
anticolonial activity not only in Africa but the United States and
Europe as well. In this compelling history, Jonathan Derrick
recounts the opposition to British and French rule practised both
by Africans living on the continent and by European
anticolonialists and members of the Black Diaspora. He covers
campaigns waged by an early incarnation of the ANC and other groups
in South Africa who fought against legal and other aspects of white
minority rule. He also analyses the Kikuyu protests against the
settler regime in Kenya; Marcus Garvey's African American movement
and its role in sparking interest in Africa; the Etoile Nord
Africaine, formed mainly by Algerians in France, that called for
the independence of French North Africa; protests led by European
critics against forced labor in Kenya and French Equatorial Africa;
and the activity of small militant groups like the Ligue de Defense
de la Race Negre (LDRN) in France and George Padmore's
International African Service Bureau (IASB) in Britain. Derrick
also examines the role of the Comintern and Western Communist
parties that were opposed to Western colonialism and ready to
support militant action against it. He shows that, although
colonial rulers greatly feared the specter of Communism in Africa,
actual Communist activity was in fact quite small. The onset of the
Second World War pushed colonial issues to the background, but as
Derrick argues, in the long term the anticolonialists of the
interwar era helped pave the way for later decolonisation.
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