Poison is better
Kevin Okoth: Africa’s Cold War, 15 June 2023
White Malice: The CIA and the Neocolonisation of Africa
by Susan Williams.
Hurst, 651 pp., £25, September 2021,978 1 78738 555 9 Show More
by Susan Williams.
Hurst, 651 pp., £25, September 2021,
Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961-75
by Natalia Telepneva.
North Carolina, 302 pp., £37.95, June,978 1 4696 6586 3 Show More
by Natalia Telepneva.
North Carolina, 302 pp., £37.95, June,
“... by the former colonial powers, fought hard to influence the turn of events; before long, as Natalia Telepneva shows in Cold War Liberation, her account of decolonisation in Portuguese Africa, Moscow and Beijing were staking their own claims to Africa’s postcolonial future.Ghana achieved independence in March 1957. George Padmore, the Trinidadian ... ”
