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Africa and the Cold War
2018
Overview
This chapter examines the contours of how African nations and liberation movements encountered and manipulated Cold War interests on the African continent from the early 1960s to the late 1970s. It focuses on three main case studies: the first Congo Crisis during and after the decolonization of the Congo from 1960 to 1965; the competition between the Soviet Union, the United States, and China for influence in the late decolonization of southern Africa in the 1970s and 1980s; and the shifting alliances between the United States and the Soviet Union in the Horn of Africa during the 1970s. These case studies are used to contextualize a broader assessment of the high costs of Cold War interventions and proxy wars in terms of human lives lost and the promotion of authoritarian leadership in much of the continent.
