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TitleWhite Malice : The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa / Susan Williams.
AuthorWilliams, A. Susan, author.
Call NoHISTORY AFRICA WIL
CollectionNF History
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International Standard Book Number 9781541768291 (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 1541768299 (hardcover)
Dewey Decimal Classification Number 967 23
Personal Name Williams, A. Susan, author.
Title Statement White Malice : The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa / Susan Williams.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice Public Affairs, [2021]
Physical Description [688] pages ; cm
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Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume nc rdacarrier
Summary, Etc. A revelatory history of how post-colonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US. In 1958 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands Off Africa conference brought together the leading figures of African independence in a public show of political strength and purpose. Led by the charismatic Kwame Nkrumah, who had just won Ghana's independence, his determined call for Pan-Africanism was heeded by young, idealistic leaders across the continent and by African Americans seeking civil rights at home. Yet, a moment that signified a new era of African freedom simultaneously marked a new era of foreign intervention and control. In White Malice, Susan Williams unearths the covert operations pursued by the CIA from Ghana to the Congo to the UN in an effort to frustrate and deny Africa's new generation of nationalist leaders. This dramatically upends the conventional belief that the African nations failed to establish effective, democratic states on their own accord. As the old European powers moved out, the US moved in. Drawing on original research and recently declassified documents, and told through an engaging narrative, Williams introduces readers to idealistic African leaders and to the secret agents, ambassadors, and even presidents who deliberately worked against them, forever altering the future of a continent.
Subject United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term United States Foreign relations History. Africa, Central
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Angola Foreign relations History. United States
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Ghana Foreign relations History. United States
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Africa, Central Foreign relations History. United States
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Africa, Central History.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Congo (Democratic Republic) Foreign relations History. United States
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Chad Foreign relations History. United States