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Title Cuba and Africa, 1959-1994 : writing an alternative Atlantic history / edited by Giulia Bonacci, Adrien Delmas and Kali Argyriadis
Published Johannesburg : Wits University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 279 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Contents FRONT COVER -- TITLE PAGE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- FIGURES AND TABLE -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- TIMELINE OF HISTORICAL EVENTS -- MAP OF AFRICA, 1994 -- INTRODUCTION Reconfiguring the Cuba-Africa Encounter -- PART I. POLITICS AND SOLIDARITY -- CHAPTER 1 Cubans in Algiers: The political uses of memory -- CHAPTER 2 Cuban Policy and African Politics: Congo-Brazzaville and Angola, 1963-1977 -- CHAPTER 3 Motivation and Legacies of the Cuban Presence in Equatorial Guinea from 1969 to the Present
CHAPTER 4 Cuban Internationalism in Africa: Civil cooperation with Angola and its aftermath -- PART II. TRAJECTORIES -- CHAPTER 5 The Experience of Multidisciplinary Research into Angola's National Question: Anthropology in a war context -- CHAPTER 6 Cuban-Congolese Families: From the Fizi-Baraka underground to Havana -- PART III. VOICES -- CHAPTER 7 Atlantic Voices: Imagination and sound dialogue between Congolese and Cuban singers in the 1950s -- CHAPTER 8 Cultural Diplomacy in the Cold War: Musical dialogues between Cuba and West Africa, 1960-1970
PART IV. RECONSTRUCTING HISTORY, RECONNECTING ROOTS -- CHAPTER 9 The Construction of a Spiritual Filiation from Havana to Ile-Ife -- CHAPTER 10 The Island, the Peninsula, and the Continent: Cuban American engagements with Africa -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX -- BACK COVER
Summary Cuba and Africa, 1959-1994 goes beyond the military interventions that decisively shaped African political history. Each chapter presents a case study- from Algeria to Angola, to Equatorial Guinea to the Congo, and shows the multiplicity of African-Cuban relations - humanitarian and medical, scientific and educational, cultural and artistic
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 28, 2020)
Subject International relations
Politics and government
SUBJECT Africa -- Relations -- Cuba
Cuba -- Relations -- Africa
Africa -- History -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001564
Africa -- Politics and government -- 1960- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001573
Subject Africa
Cuba
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Bonacci, Giulia, editor.
Delmas, Adrien, editor.
Argyriadis, Kali, editor.
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