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Navigating Socialist Encounters

Africa in Global History

Edited by

Joel Glasman

Omar Gueye

Alexander Keese

Christine Whyte

Volume

Navigating Socialist Encounters

Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War

Edited by

Eric Burton

Anne Dietrich

Immanuel Harisch

Marcia Schenck

ISBN 9783110622317

e-ISBN (PDF) 9783110623543

e-ISBN (EPUB) 9783110623826

Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de.

2021 Eric Burton, Anne Dietrich, Immanuel Harisch, Marcia Schenck, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Funded by Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)

Gedruckt mit der freundlichen Untersttzung der Potsdam Graduate School, der Zentralen Forschungsfrderung der Universitt Potsdam, ,UP - Innovative Ideen frdern und der Philosophisch-Historischen Fakultt der Universitt Innsbruck.

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Contents

1. Marcia C. Schenck, Immanuel R. Harisch, Anne Dietrich, Eric Burton Introduction: Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War
   1. Encounters, Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements
   2. Africa and East Germany: Alternative Forms of Transcontinental Interconnectedness in Global History
      1. Writing South-East Relations into Global History
      2. Writing Africa into Global History
   3. A (Dis)Entangled History of Socialist Encounters between Africa and the GDR
      1. The Dual Impulses of Decolonization and the German Division: Bandung and Hallstein in the 1950s
      2. African Decolonization and Pioneering Institutions in the 1960s
      3. Reconfiguring Solidarity in Times of Global Crisis in the 1970s
      4. Limits to Socialist Development in the 1980s
      5. Socialist Disentanglements and Transitions 1989 onwards
2. I Shaping Pioneering Institutions
   1. Jrg Depta, Anne-Kristin Hartmetz Herder vs. Goethe in Egypt: East and West German Language Courses in Cairo and the Evolution of German as a Foreign Language (DaF)
      1. Introduction
      2. Goethe and Herder Go South
      3. German-German Kulturkampf in Cairo
      4. German Language Courses in Egypt and the Emergence of DaF
      5. Conclusion
   2. Christian Alvarado In the Spirit of Harambee! Kenyan Student Unions in the German Democratic Republic and Yugoslavia, 196468
      1. We Beg to Remain in the Name of Harambee!
      2. The KSU, its Activities, and the Project of Kenyan Nationalism
      3. Competing Visions: The Idea of Education in the KSU
      4. Film and the Idea of Self-Representation
      5. Conclusion
   3. Eric Angermann Agency and Its Limits: African Unionists as Africas Vanguard at the FDGB College in Bernau
      1. Vanguardist Complaints
      2. Responding Hosts
      3. The Paternalism of Comradeship
      4. The Triumph of Dogma
      5. Conclusion
   4. Franziska Rantzsch The Negotiations of the Contract Labor Accord between the GDR and Mozambique
      1. Previous Labor Migration Agreements
      2. Intensification of Foreign Relations
      3. Planning and Shaping of International Solidarity
      4. The Negotiations of the Contract Labor Accord
      5. The Further Course of the Contract Labor Accord
      6. Conclusion
3. II Navigating the GDR: Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements
   1. G. Thomas Burgess The Rise and Fall of a Socialist Future: Ambivalent Encounters Between Zanzibar and East Germany in the Cold War
      1. The Rise of a Socialist Vanguard
      2. A New East-South Partnership
      3. The New Zanzibar
      4. East-South Encounters in Memory
      5. Conclusion
   2. J. A. Osei, Immanuel R. Harisch My Impression of the German Democratic Republic [Life Itself Exposes Lies]
      1. Editors note
      2. First Lie Nailed Down:
      3. At the College
      4. Care for the Foreign Students
      5. Freedom of Movement
      6. Socialist Construction
      7. Seeing is Believing
      8. Respect of Colour
      9. Peace Loving
      10. Friendliness
   3. Fernando Agostinho Machava Echoes of the Past: The Social Impact of the Returned Labor Migrants from East Germany on the City of Maputo
      1. Introduction
      2. Labor Migration Agreements: From Mozambique to East Germany
      3. Migrants Memories of their Reasons to Migrate
      4. The Labor Migrants Return to Mozambique
      5. Social Impact of the Madjermanes across Maputo
      6. Improvement in Living Conditions Thanks to New Products
      7. From Prestige Goods to Opportunities for Financial Gains
      8. From the Elite to the Margins: The Social Legacy of the Madjermanes
      9. Conclusion
   4. Marcia C. Schenck, Francisca Raposo Socialist Encounters at the School of Friendship
      1. A Long Way to School: My Memories of Making My Way to the GDR
   5. Ibraimo Alberto, Marcia C. Schenck Paths Are Made by Walking: Memories of Being a Mozambican Contract Worker in the GDR
      1. The Travels of the Man with the Hat
      2. Becoming a Boxer
      3. Boxing in the GDR
      4. Boxing in a Brave New World
      5. New Paths on Old Routes
4. III Sourcing Visions of Solidarity
   1. George Bodie So Close, Yet So Far: Ulrich Makosch and the GDRs Afrikabild on Screen and in Text
      1. Depicting a Revolutionary World: GDR Foreign Reportage
      2. Ulrich Makosch and Mozambique
      3. Africa on Screen: Socialist Internationalism as Entertainment
      4. Conclusion
   2. Paul Sprute Diaries of Solidarity in the Global Cold War: The East German Friendship Brigades and their Experience in Modernizing Angola
      1. Introduction
      2. International Solidarity in the GDRs Global Cold War
      3. FDJ-Friendship Brigades in Socialist Angola
      4. The Structured Practice of Solidarity in the GDR Collective
      5. The Exercise of Solidarity: Seeing like a Brigadist
      6. Conclusion
   3. Katrin Bahr Between State Mission and Everyday Life: Private Photographs of East Germans in Mozambique in the 1980s
      1. Photographs as a Medium to Document Alltagsleben
      2. The Power of Images: Official State Photographs
      3. The Power of Images: Everyday Life Abroad
      4. The Photographer: The Moving Self
      5. Where Are the Women? Between Absence and Presence
      6. Private Photographs and the Other: Mozambique and Mozambicans
      7. Conclusion: The Use of Private Photographs in the Context of GDR Memory and Beyond
   4. Alexandra Piepiorka, Eduardo F. Buanaissa A (Post)Socialist Memory Space? East German and Mozambican Memories of Cooperation in Education
      1. Introduction
      2. Theoretical Considerations on Post-socialist Memory Making
      3. Remembering Socialism in Post-socialist Germany and Mozambique
      4. Remembering Each Other: Mozambican Memory and Remembering Mozambique in (East) German Memory Literature
      5. Interpretation of Memory Literature and Memories of Cooperation in Education
      6. Concluding Remarks
5. List of Contributors
6. Person Index

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