Post colonial states find themselves in a very different place in the late 19 seventies and into the eighties than they did at the beginning of the seventies. And so there's a way in which these were y important internal contradictions of the project, or tensions that were not fully resolved, that were obscured. At the same time, you have this a an external cant assault that that both strategically deploys these internal crises and then its it's really important to note that the kind of the emerging dead crisis changes the turrain of struggle, right?
Featuring Adom Getachew on the story of how decolonization struggles across the Black Atlantic tried to not only cast off European rule but also to remake the entire world system. An October 2019 episode from the archives.
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