Séance 4 - Circulations transcontinentales à l'aube des indépendances

Lecture obligatoire: Reem Abou-El-Fadl, (2019). Building Egypt's Afro-Asian Hub: Infrastructures of Solidarity and the 1957 Cairo Conference. Journal of World History, 30(1-2), 157-192.

Lectures complémentaires: 

• Pikovskaia, Kristina. 2020. “‘We Could Not Be There’: Storytelling and the Narratives of Soviet Military Advisers, Specialists and Interpreters in Angola during the Civil War (1975–1992).” Journal of Southern African Studies 46 (5): 903–21.
• Constantin Katskioris, « L'union soviétique et les intellectuels africains : Internationalisme, panafricanisme et négritude pendant les années de la décolonisation, 1954-1964 ». Cahiers du monde russe, 2006/1 Vol 47, 2006. p.15-32.

• Thiam, Madina. “The Caliphate, the Black Writer, and a World in Revolution, 1957–69.” The Journal of African History 64.2 (2023): 174–183.

• G. Roberts, Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es Salaam: African Liberation and the Global Cold War, 1961-1974 (Cambridge, 2022)

• White, Alex. “The Caged Bird Sings of Freedom: Maya Angelou’s Anti-Colonial Journalism in the United Arab Republic and Ghana, 1961–1965.” Journal of Global History 19, no. 3 (2024): 421–38.

• Monica Popescu, At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War (Durham: Duke

  University Press, 2020

• Allman, J. “Kwame Nkrumah, African Studies and the Politics of Knowledge Production in the Black Star of Africa.” The International Journal of African Historical Studies 46, no. 2 (2013): 181–203.

• Jonathon L. Earle (2012) Reading revolution in late colonial Buganda, Journal of Eastern African Studies, 6:3, 507-526.

• Osei-Opare, Nana. “Ghana and Nkrumah Revisited: Lenin, State Capitalism, and Black Marxist Orbits.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 65.2 (2023): 399–421.
• Leslie James, George Padmore and Decolonization from Below: Pan-Africanism, the Cold War, and the End of Empire (Basingstoke, 2015)
• Elara Bertho, Un couple panafricain : Miriam Makeba et Stokely Carmichael en Guinée, Rot Bo Krik, 2025.

Itw de l'autrice sur France 24: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1254944163015942