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.
Author(s): Susan Williams
Edition: 1 (e-book)
Publisher: PublicAffairs (Perseus Books, Hachette)
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 688
City: New York, NY
Cover
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Maps xi
I THE UNITED STATES OF AFRICA
1 Freedom At Midnight 3 (12)
2 `My Home Is Over Jordan 15 (11)
3 The Challenge Of The Congo 26 (10)
4 `Hands Off Africa!' 36 (17)
II THE CIA
5 Infiltration Into Africa 53 (14)
6 `Africa Has Become The Real Battleground' 67 (15)
7 Atomium 82 (15)
III AFRICAN JAZZ
8 The Rise Of Lumumba 97 (12)
9 `Table Ronde' 109(12)
10 Ambassador Burden 121(14)
IV AMERICA AND AFRICA
11 The Africa Division Of The Cia 135(8)
12 Voice Of Africa 143(11)
13 American Cia Agent And Kenyan Cia Asset 154(15)
V "INDEPENDANCE CHA CHA
14 `The Courageous Have Won' 169(12)
15 Year Of Africa 181(13)
16 Things Fall Apart 194(11)
17 Eisenhower Snubs Lumumba 205(12)
VI YOPROP
18 Bribery, Bugging And Green Berets 217(18)
19 The Road To Calvary 235(17)
20 The Poison Plot 252(17)
VII THE GLOBAL GAME
21 Africa At The United Nations 269(10)
22 Spying On The Un 279(12)
23 `Lumumba Assails Us On Uranium' 291(14)
VIII CARROT AND STICK
24 Third-Country Agent Qjwin 305(11)
25 `The Big American Stick' 316(8)
26 Ambassador Satch 324(11)
IX THE TURNING POINT
27 Trick Or Escape? 335(14)
28 Manhunt For Lumumba 349(14)
29 Deep Cover Agent Wirogue 363(13)
30 Baking A Snake 376(15)
31 Sunk Hope 391(16)
X THE SEEDS ARE SOWN
32 Arming The Skies 407(14)
33 `A Bride Everybody Wants' 421(9)
34 Made In America 430(8)
35 Hands Off Ghana! 438(16)
36 `America's Angolan' 454(11)
XI DARK DAYS
37 `The Cia Reptilian Coils' 465(11)
38 Closing In On Nkrumah 476(18)
39 `One Step Backward. We Shall Take Two 494(10)
Forward'
40 The Dead Hand 504(15)
Acknowledgements 519(6)
List of Acronyms 525(2)
List of Archives 527(4)
Notes 531(66)
Selected Bibliography 597(30)
Index 627
