Globalizing Independence Struggles of Lusophone Africa

Natalia Telepneva is Lecturer in International History at University of Strathclyde, UK. She is the author of Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and Collapse of Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961-1975 (2022) and co-editor of Warsaw Pact Intervention in the Third World: Aid and Influence in the Cold War (I.B Tauris, 2018).Rui Lopes is a Researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal, and an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck University of London, UK. He is the author of West Germany and the Portuguese Dictatorship, 1968-1974: Between Cold War and Colonialism (2014).

• Introduction - Natalia Telepneva (University of Strathclyde, UK) and Rui Lopes (Institute of Contemporary History, NOVA-FSCH/IN2PAST, Portugal)Part I. Ideas and Rhetoric of Liberation Chapter 1. Bourgeois Revolutionaries: Holden Roberto, American Anticommunism, and the Angolan Revolutionary Government in Exile - Alexander Marino (United States Army War College, USA)Chapter 2. “Our Country or Death”: Reconstructing the Mozambique Revolutionary Committee’s (COREMO) Political Ideology through its Public Discourse - Lazlo Passemiers (University of the Free State, South Africa)Chapter 3. “If you want to call it Marxism, you may call it Marxism” – Amilcar Cabral on Class and National Liberation - Rita Narra (NOVA University, Portugal)Part II. Networks and Strategies of SolidarityChapter 4. The Year after Africa: How the UN Response to Angola and Goa Militarized Decolonization - Joseph Parrott (Ohio State University, USA)Chapter 5. The Struggle for Southern Africa: Constructing Imaginaries Around the Unliberated Region - Ana Moledo (Leipzig Universiy, Germany)Chapter 6. Fighting for Neutrality: The Sino-Soviet Split, Afro-Asian Conferences and the Liberation Movements of the Portuguese Colonies - Juliao Soares Sousa (University of Coimbra, Portugal)Chapter 7. The Canadian Broad Left and the Anti-Colonial Struggle at Home and Abroad: The Case of the Toronto Committee for the Liberations of Portugal’s African Colonies - Marcal de Menezes Paredes (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)Chapter 8. The Condor Spreads Its Wings: The South American Secret Missions in Africa after the Carnation Revolution - Gisele Lobato (Interuniversity Doctoral Program in History, Portugal)Part III. The Economy and Policies of IndependenceChapter 9. Beyond “Flag Independence”: The Decolonization Committee and Foreign Interests in the Portuguese Colonies, 1965–1974 - Aurora Santos (NOVA-FSCH/IN2PAST, Portugal)Chapter 10. Polish Relations with Angola, 1975-1989: Transfer of Knowledge and Military Assistance with Limited Economic Outcome - Przemyslaw Gasztold (Warsaw University, Poland)Chapter 11. Globalising Violence and Resistance in São Tomé and Príncipe - Inês Nascimento Rodrigues (University of Coimbra, Portugal) and Gerhard Seibert (Centro de Estudos Internacionais, Portugal) Chapter 12. The Making of Independent Cabo Verde: Militant Non-alignment, Active Neutrality and Fading Anti-imperialism - Victor Barros (NOVA-FSCH/IN2PAST, Portugal), Osvaldino Monteiro (University of Cabo Verde, Cape Verde), Suzano Costa (University of Lisbon, Portugal)Chapter 13. (Re)framing Independence: The Battle for Guinea-Bissau's Film Culture, 1975-80 - Paulo Cunha (University of Beira Interior, Portugal), Catarina Laranjeiro (NOVA-FSCH/IN2PAST, Portugal), Rui Lopes (NOVA-FSCH/IN2PAST, Portugal),BibliographyIndex

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