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The Ideological Scramble for Africa
In The Ideological Scramble for
Africa , Frank Gerits examines how African
leaders in the 1950s and 1960s crafted an anticolonial
modernization project. Rather than choose Cold War sides between
East and West, anticolonial nationalists worked to reverse the
psychological and cultural destruction of colonialism.
Kwame Nkrumah's African Union was envisioned as a federation of
liberation to challenge the extant imperial forces: the US empire
of liberty, the Soviet empire of equality, and the European empires
of exploitation. In the 1950s, the goal of proving the potency of a
pan-African ideology shaped the agenda of the Bandung Conference
and Ghana's support for African liberation, while also determining
what was at stake in the Congo crisis and in the fight against
white minority rule in southern and eastern Africa. In the 1960s,
the attempt to remake African psychology was abandoned, and
socioeconomic development came into focus. Anticolonial
nationalists did not simply resist or utilize imperial and Cold War
pressures but drew strength from the example of the Haitian
Revolution of 1791, in which Toussaint Louverture demanded the
universal application of Europe's Enlightenment values. The
liberationists of the postwar period wanted to redesign society in
the image of the revolution that had created them.
The Ideological Scramble for Africa demonstrates that
the Cold War struggle between capitalism and Communism was only one
of two ideological struggles that picked up speed after 1945; the
battle between liberation and imperialism proved to be more
enduring.
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Leadership in colonial Africa : disruption of traditional frameworks and patterns
Taken together, the chapters in this book represent a tapestry of leadership frameworks and cultures in colonial Africa.Scholars across disciplines explore the nature and evolution of leadership born of the colonial encounter between white colonialists and native Africans as well as the leadership that ultimately led to independence.Leadership in.
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The Political and Moral Imperatives of the Bandung Conference of 1955
Now fifty years on, with significantly more primary references available,Kweku Ampiah's study provides a much-needed in-depth re-evaluation of the conference as a whole, focusing in particular on the external influences and preoccupations impacting on the participants seen through three case studies involving the US, UK and Japan.
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The ideological scramble for Africa : how the pursuit of anticolonial modernity shaped a postcolonial order, 1945-1966
\"After 1945 African nationalists were drawn into a battle for African hearts and minds. Rather than choose between East or West, Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana promoted a vision of anticolonial modernity and competed with imperial, communist, and capitalist modernization schemes to prove the superiority of his plan for postcolonial order\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Africa. Episode seven, The rise of nationalism
This major eight-part series reveals the rich and diverse drama of African history and is presented by the distinguished historian and scholar Basil Davidson. Covering a vast time scale - from the origins of some of the world's greatest civilisations, to colonisation, the rise of nationalism and the emergence of modern Africa - the story is unfolded on location all over the continent with the help of archive film, carefully illustrated eye-witness accounts, interviews with statesmen and leaders, dramatic reconstructions, and specially-shot film of festivals, ceremonies, and life there today.
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