WORLDMAKING AFTER EMPIRE

ecolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of co lonialism as an inevitable transition from a world of empires to one of nationsa world in which self-determination was synonymous with nation-buildingobscure just how radical this change was. Drawing on the political thought of anticolonial intellectuals and statesmen such as Nnamdi Azikiwe, W.E.B Du Bois, George Padmore, Kwame Nkrumah, Eric Williams, Michael Manley, and Julius Nyerere, this important ne...[Read more]