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The Ideological Scramble for Africa
2023
Overview
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.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Subject
/ 1960
/ Africa
/ Africa -- Politics and government -- 1945-1960
/ Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960
/ Africa and the Global Cold War
/ African
/ Decolonization -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
/ Empire and imperialism after 1945
/ HISTORY
/ HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Cold War
/ Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972 -- Influence
/ Nkrumah, Kwame, 1909-1972 -- Political and social views
/ Pan-Africanism -- History -- 20th century
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE & POLITICAL HISTORY
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African
/ Postcolonialism -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
/ Postcolonialism and the Cold War
/ World
ISBN
9781501767913, 1501767917, 1501767933, 9781501767937, 9781501767920, 1501767925
