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White malice : the CIA and the covert recolonization of Africa / Susan Williams.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : PublicAffairs, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 651 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781541768291
  • 1541768299
Subject(s):
Contents:
The United States of Africa. Freedom at midnight -- 'My home is over Jordan' -- The challenge of the Congo -- 'Hands off Africa!' -- The CIA. Infiltration into Africa -- 'Africa has become the real battleground' -- Atomium -- African jazz. The rise of Lumumba -- 'Table ronde' -- Ambassador burden -- America and Africa. The Africa division of the CIA -- Voice of Africa -- American CIA agent and Kenyan CIA asset -- 'Indépendance cha cha'. 'The courageous have won' -- Year of Africa -- Things fall apart -- Eisenhower snubs Lumumba -- Yqprop. Bribery, bugging and Green Berets -- The road to Calvary -- The poison plot -- The global game. Africa at the United Nations -- Spying on the UN -- 'Lumumba assails US on uranium' -- Carrot and stick. Third-country agent QJWIN -- 'The big American stick' -- Ambassador Satch -- The turning point. Trick or escape? -- Manhunt for Lumumba -- Deep cover agent WIROGUE -- Baking a snake -- Sunk hope -- The seeds are sown. Arming the skies -- 'A bride everybody wants' -- Made in America -- Hands off Ghana! -- 'America's Angolan' -- Dark days. 'The CIA reptilian coils' -- Closing in on Nkrumah -- 'One step backward. We shall take two forward' -- The dead hand.
Summary: Drawing on original research and recently declassified documents, this book exposes the covert operations pursued by the CIA from Ghana to the Congo to the UN in an effort to frustrate and deny Africa's new generation of nationalist leaders.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A revelatory history of how postcolonial African Independence movements were systematically undermined by one nation above all: the US.



In 1958 in Accra, Ghana, the Hands Off Africa conference brought together the leading figures of African independence in a public show of political strength and purpose. Led by the charismatic Kwame Nkrumah, who had just won Ghana's independence, his determined call for Pan-Africanism was heeded by young, idealistic leaders across the continent and by African Americans seeking civil rights at home. Yet, a moment that signified a new era of African freedom simultaneously marked a new era of foreign intervention and control.



In White Malice , Susan Williams unearths the covert operations pursued by the CIA from Ghana to the Congo to the UN in an effort to frustrate and deny Africa's new generation of nationalist leaders. This dramatically upends the conventional belief that the African nations failed to establish effective, democratic states on their own accord. As the old European powers moved out, the US moved in.



Drawing on original research, recently declassified documents, and told through an engaging narrative, Williams introduces readers to idealistic African leaders and to the secret agents, ambassadors, and even presidents who deliberately worked against them, forever altering the future of a continent.



Drawing on original research and recently declassified documents, this book exposes the covert operations pursued by the CIA from Ghana to the Congo to the UN in an effort to frustrate and deny Africa's new generation of nationalist leaders.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 531-625) and index.

The United States of Africa. Freedom at midnight -- 'My home is over Jordan' -- The challenge of the Congo -- 'Hands off Africa!' -- The CIA. Infiltration into Africa -- 'Africa has become the real battleground' -- Atomium -- African jazz. The rise of Lumumba -- 'Table ronde' -- Ambassador burden -- America and Africa. The Africa division of the CIA -- Voice of Africa -- American CIA agent and Kenyan CIA asset -- 'Indépendance cha cha'. 'The courageous have won' -- Year of Africa -- Things fall apart -- Eisenhower snubs Lumumba -- Yqprop. Bribery, bugging and Green Berets -- The road to Calvary -- The poison plot -- The global game. Africa at the United Nations -- Spying on the UN -- 'Lumumba assails US on uranium' -- Carrot and stick. Third-country agent QJWIN -- 'The big American stick' -- Ambassador Satch -- The turning point. Trick or escape? -- Manhunt for Lumumba -- Deep cover agent WIROGUE -- Baking a snake -- Sunk hope -- The seeds are sown. Arming the skies -- 'A bride everybody wants' -- Made in America -- Hands off Ghana! -- 'America's Angolan' -- Dark days. 'The CIA reptilian coils' -- Closing in on Nkrumah -- 'One step backward. We shall take two forward' -- The dead hand.

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