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Explores the culturally complex and cosmopolitan histories of
islands off the African coast Islands and island chains like Cabo
Verde, Madagascar, and Bioko are often sidelined in contemporary
understandings of Africa in which mainland nation-states take
center stage in the crafting of historical narratives. Yet in the
modern period, these small offshore spaces have often played
important if inconsistent roles in facilitating intra- and
intercontinental exchanges that have had lasting effects on the
cultural, economic, and political landscape of Africa. In African
Islands: Leading Edges of Empire and Globalism, contributors argue
for the importance of Africa's islands in integrating the continent
into wider networks of trade and migration that links it with Asia,
Europe, and the Americas. Essays consider the cosmopolitan and
culturally complex identities of Africa's islands, analyzing the
process and extent to which trade, slavery, and migration bonded
African elements with Asian, Arabic, and European characteristics
over the years. While the continental and island nations have
experienced similar cycles of invasion, boom, and bust, essayists
note both similarities and striking differences in how these events
precipitated economic changes in the different geographic areas.
This book, a much-needed broadly comparative study of the African
islands, will be an important resource for students and scholars of
the region and of topics such as colonialism, economic history, and
cultural hybridity.
The Tricontinental Revolution provides a major reassessment of the
global rise and impact of Tricontinentalism, the militant strand of
Third World solidarity that defined the 1960s and 1970s as decades
of rebellion. Cold War interventions highlighted the limits of
decolonization, prompting a generation of global South radicals to
adopt expansive visions of self-determination. Long associated with
Cuba, this anti-imperial worldview stretched far beyond the
Caribbean to unite international revolutions around programs of
socialism, armed revolt, economic sovereignty, and confrontational
diplomacy. Linking independent nations with non-state movements
from North Vietnam through South Africa to New York City,
Tricontinentalism encouraged marginalized groups to mount radical
challenges to the United States and the inequitable Euro-centric
international system. Through eleven expert essays, this volume
recenters global political debates on the priorities and ideologies
of the Global South, providing a new framework, chronology, and
tentative vocabulary for understanding the evolution of
anti-imperial and decolonial politics.
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