Globalizing Independence Struggles of Lusophone Africa

<b>Lusophone Africa has been neglected in Anglophone historiography.</b>With the exceptions of a narrow set of episodes figures and interpretations all of which appear in a fragmented set of journal articles its struggles against Portuguese colonialism have remained outside the grand narratives of decolonisation.<br/> <br/>In this open access book a group of established and up-and-coming historians of Lusophone Africa bring much-needed coherence to this interconnected set of anti-colonial struggles in order to show how people and ideas from these countries crossed borders around the globe. Its international team of contributors draws on a an underutilized range of source material beyond the usual Western state archives in order to cover a wide geographic scope from North America Latin America Western Europe Eastern Europe and Asia all while critically examining the consequences of such international connections within the Lusophone states themselves.<br/> <br/>For its empirically rich original contributions to the grand narratives of African independence struggles this book is a must-read for students and scholars interested in African history decolonization and the Cold War and it is of keen interest to anyone interested in alternative histories of decolonization.<br/><br/><i>The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Bloomsbury Open Collections Library Collective.</i>