Review: George Padmore and Decolonisation from Below: Pan- Africanism, the Cold War and the End of Empire

Journal article

The study of black and African intellectual history, and its location in transnational activist networks, has recently generated insightful studies that take such people’s ideas seriously and locate them in a mid-twentieth century context in which contested notions of decolonization and racial liberation were debated in new media, private and public spaces, in metropoles and across the empires. Leslie James makes a major contribution to these works with her enlightening study of George Padmore’s life and, particularly, his ideas, demonstrating that, perhaps more than any other individual, he shaped a generation of radical Africanist thinkers and the political direction of newly independent Anglophone Africa.

Authors: Larmer, M

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Reviewed (other)
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Journal: Journal of Contemporary History
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 462-464
• Publication date: 2018-04-05
• DOI: 10.1177/0022009417749502m
• EISSN: 1461-7250
• ISSN: 0022-0094