Two recently published books, one on the role in Africa of the US and the other on the Soviet Union on the continent provide greatly contrasting perspectives as well as significant additions to the historiology of Africa’s plight under colonialism and it its post-colonial years, writes Bob Newland
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The life of Ho Chi Minh, the political and personal forces that shaped him, and the role he played in shaping the future of an independent Vietnam
Spectre provides an amazing account of the detail, both military and political, of the struggles that formed post-war Asia, writes Bob Newland
The country’s crisis explained within a broader analysis of uneven post-colonial development, and Pakistan’s place within the global capitalist economy., writes Joe Gill
Review of a book that evidences the crimes of European imperialist states looting the Caribbean and exploiting of the Afro-Caribbean slaves & their descendants
Drawing on archival research including newly released MI5 files, Marika Sherwood reports on the extraordinary movement founded in 1945 by Kwame Nkrumah and colleagues in London and France to campaign for independence and unity, which led to the beginning of the Cold War in West Africa, writes Bob Newland.