Transnational Histories of Southern Africas Liberation Movements
Transnational Histories of Southern Africas Liberation Movements offers new perspectives on southern Africas wars of national liberation, drawing on extensive oral historical and archival research.
Assuming neither the primacy of nationalist loyalties as they exist today nor any single path to liberation, the book unpicks any notion of a straightforward imposition of Cold War ideologies or strategic interests on liberation wars. This approach adds new dimensions to the rich literatures on the Global Cold War and on solidarity movements. The contributors trace the ways that ideas and practices were made, adopted, and circulated through time and space through a focus on African soldiers, politicians and diplomats. The book also asks what motivated the men and women who crossed borders to join liberation movements, how Cold War influences were acted upon, interpreted and used, and why certain moments, venues and relations took on exaggerated importance. The connections among liberation movements, between them and their hosts, and across an extraordinarily diverse set of external actors reveal surprising exchanges and lasting legacies that have too often been obscured by the assertion of monolithic national histories.
Tracing an extraordinarily diverse set of interactions and exchanges, Transnational Histories of Southern Africas Liberation Movements will be of great interest to scholars of Southern Africa, Transnational History, the Cold War and African Politics. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Southern African Studies.
Jocelyn Alexander is Professor of Commonwealth Studies at the University of Oxford, UK.
JoAnn McGregor is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Sussex, UK.
Blessing-Miles Tendi is Associate Professor of African Politics at the University of Oxford, UK.
Southern African Studies
The academic research volumes in this interdisciplinary series are publications in book format of special issues from the Journal of Southern African Studies. The special issues are often complemented by updated forewords or epilogues. The Journal Editorial Board act as the series editors.
The Journal of Southern African Studies (JSAS) is an international publication for work of high academic quality on issues of interest and concern in the region of Southern Africa. It generates fresh scholarly research in the fields of history, economics, sociology, demography, social anthropology, geography, development studies, administration, law, political science, political economy, international relations, literature, cultural studies, and the natural sciences in so far as they relate to the human condition. It periodically organises and supports conferences to this end, sometimes in the region. It seeks to encourage inter-disciplinary analysis, strong comparative perspectives and original research that reflects new theoretical or methodological approaches. An active international advisory board with strong Southern African representation demonstrates our close ties with scholars there and our commitment to promoting research in the region.
The region covered embraces South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Angola and Mozambique; and occasionally, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Madagascar and Mauritius.
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The following chapters were originally published in the Journal of Southern African Studies, volume 43, issue 1 (February 2017). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Introduction
The Transnational Histories of Southern African Liberation Movements: An Introduction
Jocelyn Alexander, JoAnn McGregor and Blessing-Miles Tendi
Journal of Southern African Studies, volume 43, issue 1 (February 2017) pp. 112
Chapter 1
Global Ideologies, Local Politics: The Cold War as Seen from Central Angola
Justin Pearce
Journal of Southern African Studies, volume 43, issue 1 (February 2017) pp. 1327
Chapter 2
Makers of Bonds and Ties: Transnational Socialisation and National Liberation in Mozambique
Daniel Kaiser
Journal of Southern African Studies, volume 43, issue 1 (February 2017) pp. 2948
Chapter 3
African Soldiers in the USSR: Oral Histories of ZAPU Intelligence Cadres Soviet Training, 19641979
Jocelyn Alexander and JoAnn McGregor
Journal of Southern African Studies, volume 43, issue 1 (February 2017) pp. 4966
Chapter 4
Mediators of Liberation: Eastern-Bloc Officials, Mozambican Diplomacy and the Origins of Soviet Support for Frelimo, 19581965
Natalia Telepneva
Journal of Southern African Studies, volume 43, issue 1 (February 2017) pp. 6781
Chapter 5
ZANUs External Networks 19631979: An Appraisal
Gerald Chikozho Mazarire
Journal of Southern African Studies, volume 43, issue 1 (February 2017) pp. 83106
Chapter 6
Front Line Diplomats: African Diplomatic Representations of the Zimbabwean Patriotic Front, 19761978
Timothy Scarnecchia
Journal of Southern African Studies, volume 43, issue 1 (February 2017) pp. 107124
Chapter 7
Education in Exile: International Scholarships, Cold War Politics, and Conflicts among SWAPO Members in Tanzania, 19611968
Christian A. Williams
Journal of Southern African Studies
