The period between the two World Wars were troubling years for colonial empire. Individuals and organizations called for major reforms and an end to white supremacy and colonial rule, contributing first to local unrest and protest and then to anticolonial activity not only in Africa but the United States and Europe as well. In this compelling history, Jonathan Derrick recounts the opposition to British and French rule practised both by Africans living on the continent and by European anticolonialists and members of the Black Diaspora. He covers campaigns waged by an early incarnation of the ANC and other groups in South Africa who fought against legal and other aspects of white minority rule. He also analyses the Kikuyu protests against the settler regime in Kenya; Marcus Garvey's African American movement and its role in sparking interest in Africa; the Etoile Nord Africaine, formed mainly by Algerians in France, that called for the independence of French North Africa; protests led by European critics against forced labor in Kenya and French Equatorial Africa; and the activity of small militant groups like the Ligue de Defense de la Race Negre (LDRN) in France and George Padmore's International African Service Bureau (IASB) in Britain. Derrick also examines the role of the Comintern and Western Communist parties that were opposed to Western colonialism and ready to support militant action against it. He shows that, although colonial rulers greatly feared the specter of Communism in Africa, actual Communist activity was in fact quite small. The onset of the Second World War pushed colonial issues to the background, but as Derrick argues, in the long term the anticolonialists of the interwar era helped pave the way for later decolonisation.
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'This is a brilliant study of the relationships between African nationalists and socialist and communist movements both in Africa and in the diaspora. . . The range of colonies studied is impressive--Derrick moves fluently from Algeria to Mali of Madagascar--from the Gambia to Kenya or Egypt.. . A fascinating study and one that was enjoyable to read.' ----Chartist
'This is an impressive and scholarly synthesis of a huge amount of historical data that succeeds in presenting a strong narrative of African agitation against colonial rule at the height of European imperialism. As such, this project makes a novel contribution to knowledge.' ----Dr Robert Shilliam, Oxford University
'Impressive. . . These fighters have been, for too long, hidden from our history.' --Socialist Review
'This is an impressive and scholarly synthesis of a huge amount of historical data that succeeds in presenting a strong narrative of African agitation against colonial rule at the height of European imperialism. As such, this project makes a novel contribution to knowledge.' ----Dr Robert Shilliam, Oxford University
'Impressive. . . These fighters have been, for too long, hidden from our history.' --Socialist Review
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Jonathan Derrick is a freelance editor and scholar who for twenty years served on the editorial staff of West Africa Magazine. He has published several scholarly articles on African history and, with Ralph Austen, is the coauthor of Middlemen of the Cameroons River: The Duala and Their Hinterland, c.1600-c.1960.
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