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The Sharpeville Massacre, 1960: African Activism and the Press
This chapter examines British press treatment of the Sharpeville massacre. It emphasises the continued centrality of African activism to British...
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“He Is My Younger Brother”: Nationalism, Independence and the Cold War
This chapter addresses Penn’s philosophy that shaped his views on the burning political issues of the day—decolonisation, African nationalism and the...
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Imagining African Empires, Debating the Case of Dahomey
Understanding empires in terms of power systems where control over people and the politics of difference are crucial, this paper approaches African...
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The British Press, Public Opinion and the End of Empire in Africa The 'Wind of Change', 1957-60
This book provides fresh insights into how the British press affected both British perceptions of decolonisation in Africa and British policy towards...
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UK-South African Educational Cooperation in the Years of ‘High’ Apartheid, 1964 to 1979
This chapter analyses the extent of the policy changes implemented by Harold Wilson’s first Labour government to increase educational engagement with...
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The Internationalisation of the ‘Native Labour' Question in Portuguese Late Colonialism, 1945–1962
This volume addresses the ways the ‘native labour’ question in the Portuguese late colonial empire in Africa became a recurrent topic of...
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Introduction
In the early fifties, the European colonial empires in Africa were still intact. A decade later, decolonisation in Africa appeared irreversible and...
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African Women in African Arts: Making Art for Change
This chapter about African women artists discusses the works of some women artists drawn from different regions of the continent whose trajectories...
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Conclusion
British newspapers and news of British newspaper content travelled to Africa. There, the coverage was bound to fights against colonial rule as well...
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Introduction
This is the introductory chapter that situates the work within the existing South African and international historiography addressing the history of...
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The Reordering of Space and Reference: Polish Geologists in West Africa and Their Map** of the Postcolonial Order in the 1960s
This contribution uses the field of technical aid—geological expertise—as a lens for understanding the process of re-sha** postcolonial and...
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Thinking East African: Debating Federation and Regionalism, 1960–1977
East African federation was a vision of regional African unity that emerged with force in the years of decolonisation. Federation never came to pass,...
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The Vietnam War
While traditional accounts of the Vietnam War viewed it as an American Cold War conflict, later studies emphasise how Cold War themes intersect with...
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Breathing Spaces and Leverage: Reasons Behind the African Conferences and Commissions
Before examining ways in which the British government sought to exercise control through African commissions and conferences, it will hopefully be...
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Introduction
The labour question is a central one in the history and historiography of Portuguese modern colonialism. Individual authors have explored the topic,...
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Successes, Failures, and Consequences of the Commissions and Conferences
This chapter looks at two principal themes. The first is whether conferences and commissions were the successes that the British had hoped for. To...
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Conclusion
By looking at decolonisation through the prism of constitutional conferences and commissions, many of which have hitherto received scant attention,...
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The Unbearable Virtues of Backwardness: Mircea Eliade’s Conceptualisation of Colonialism and His Attraction to Romania’s Interwar Fascist Movement
This chapter addresses Mircea Eliade’s conceptualisation of the colonial experience and the ways in which it influenced his view of history, which in...
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Strengthening Voices: Constitutional Commissions and Popular Opinion and Politics in Africa
This chapter shows how a study of the constitutional commissions of the second Macmillan government provides us with valuable information on how the...
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Introduction
This chapter sets out the key themes which will be discussed in the book while positioning it within the existing literature on UK-South African...