Decolonising Africa (TRIH ep 100)
1960 · Resource
Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook talk with guest Tom O'Alade about African decolonisation, opening with Frantz Fanon's role and writings (notably The Wretched of the Earth). They survey the uneven pace of independence across the continent — Ghana's 1957 breakthrough under Kwame Nkrumah, the earlier exits of Tunisia and Morocco, and the long continuities of European rule — and the differing colonial models used by Britain, France and Belgium. The conversation examines elite networks formed in...
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