Globalizing Independence Struggles of Lusophone Africa: Anticolonial and Postcolonial Politics

Lusophone Africa has been neglected in Anglophone historiography. With the exceptions of a narrow set of episodes, figures, and interpretations, all of which appear in a fragmented set of journal articles, its struggles against Portuguese colonialism have remained outside the grand narratives of decolonisation. In this open access book, a group of established and up-and-coming historians of Lusophone Africa bring much-needed coherence to this interconnected set of anti-colonial struggles in order to show how people and ideas from these countries crossed borders around the globe. Its international team of contributors draws on a an underutilized range of source material beyond the usual Western state archives in order to cover a wide geographic scope, from North America, Latin America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, and Asia, all while critically examining the consequences of such international connections within the Lusophone states themselves. For its empirically rich, original contributions to the grand narratives of African independence struggles, this book is a must-read for students and scholars interested in African history, decolonization, and the Cold War, and it is of keen interest to anyone interested in alternative histories of decolonization. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective. Cover Half Title Title Copyright BOA Contents Contributors Acknowledgements Select abbreviations Introduction Part 1 Ideas and Rhetoric of Liberation 1 Bourgeois revolutionaries: Holden Roberto, American anti-communism and the Angolan Revolutionary Government in Exile (Alexa 2 ‘Our country or death’: Reconstructing the Mozambique Revolutionary Committee’s political ideology through its public discour 3 ‘If you want to call it Marxism, you may call it Marxism’: Amílcar Cabral on class and national liberation (Rita Lucas Part 2 Networks and Strategies of Solidarity 4 The year after Africa: How the UN response to Angola and Goa militarized decolonization (R. Joseph Parrott) 5 The struggle for Southern Africa: Constructing imaginaries around the unliberated region (Ana Moledo) 6 Fighting for neutrality: The Sino-Soviet split, Afro-Asian conferences and the liberation movements of the Portuguese colonie 7 The Canadian Broad Left and the anticolonial struggle at home and abroad: The case of the Toronto Committee for the Liberatio 8 The Condor spreads its wings: The South American secret missions in Africa after the Carnation Revolution (Gisele Part 3 The Economy and Policies of Independence 9 Beyond ‘flag independence’: The Decolonization Committee and foreign interests in the Portuguese colonies, 1965–74 (Aurora 10 Polish relations with Angola, 1975–89: Transfer of knowledge and military assistance with limited economic outcome ( 11 Globalizing violence and resistance in São Tomé and Príncipe (Gerhard Seibert and Inês Nascimento Ro 12 The making of independent Cabo Verde: Militant non-alignment, active neutrality and fading anti-imperialism (Víct 13 (Re)framing independence: The battle for Guinea-Bissau’s film culture, 1975–80 (Paulo Cunha, Catarina Laranje Further reading Index