Centre for Internationalism book discussion
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
Book launch and discussion of Rui Lopes and Natalia Telepneva (eds), Globalizing Independence Struggles of Lusophone Africa: Anticolonial and Postcolonial Politics (Bloomsbury, 2025), with the authors and Leslie James (QMUL)
This edited volume sheds a new light on the international ramifications of the decolonisation process of Portugal's African empire, firmly situating it in the history of the Cold War, pan-Africanism, New Left transnationalism, and globalisation. On one hand, it shows how the colonial wars that began in the early 1960s forged new connections across borders, involving diplomats, activists, business companies, filmmakers, and spies from the various continents. On the other hand, it analyses how the ensuing construction of independent states in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cabo Verde, and São Tomé and Príncipe, since the mid-1970s, was itself conditioned by the global economy, geopolitics, and cultural transits. Besides the two editors, the book will be presented by Leslie James (QMUL).
Contact name:
Jessica Reinisch