Description: The first coherent treatment of Lusophone Africa's independence struggles, including rich empirical chapters that draw on sources beyond the usual Western archives.
Brief description: Natalia Telepneva is Lecturer in International History, University of Strathclyde, UK. She is the author of Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and the Collapse of Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961-1975 (2022) and co-edited Warsaw Pact Intervention in the Third World: Aid and Influence in the Cold War (I.B Tauris, 2018).
Review Quotes:
"What they...reveal in this volume vividly illuminates the importance of continuing the critical normative and empirical consideration of climate change policy and its impacts upon lusophone - and indeed all - Africans as an ostensibly unilateral global agenda." --UTAFITI
"In this comprehensive collection of papers there are too many interesting aspects to comment on or evaluate individually in such a short review. It does, however, represent an extremely valuable contribution to colonial and post-colonial research and to the history of African liberation struggles." --Liberation "This is an essential collection for scholars of empire and its oppositions. Connecting local concerns with wider anti-colonial pressures, the contributors explain why liberation struggles in Lusophone Africa became so emblematic of global decolonization and the coalitions it brought together." --Professor Martin Thomas, Director of the Centre for the Study of War, State and Society, University of Exeter, UK "This important collection assembles an international group of scholars whose work deepens and extends the study of twentieth century decolonisation in exciting ways. Lopes and Telepneva have crafted a coherent framework which brings into focus a very rich diversity of analyses and perspectives. Ranging across an extended empirical terrain from diplomacy and economic cooperation to film, this volume brings substance, detail and context to crucial themes such as liberation, solidarity, 'global cold war' and non-alignment. Delving into diverse archives, the authors construct compelling accounts which situate the independence struggles of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cabo Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe within global dynamics as well as highlighting their internal tensions. These close studies of linked anticolonial struggles and the difficult quest for postcolonial reconstruction bring to the fore overlooked actors, re-evaluate existing narratives, and chart new frames of analysis and understanding." --Professor Branwen Gruffydd Jones, Cardiff University, UK "The papers selected for this edited volume all feature a clear and engaging writing style; and they all provide a richly detailed historical context for each of the lusophone African countries ... Globalizing Independence Struggles of Lusophone Africa is an excellent anthology for drawing attention to these features of under-represented regions of the African development landscape." --UTAFITI: Journal of African Perspectives