Cuba, Africa, and Apartheid's End

Africa's Children Return!

Isaac Saney author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:15th Feb '23

Should be back in stock very soon

Cuba, Africa, and Apartheid's End cover

Cuba, Africa, and Apartheid’s End: Africa's Children Return! examines the history and impressive dimensions of the Cuban Revolution’s solidarity with Africa. Cuba’s role in the southern African national liberation and anti-colonial struggle was the largest and most consequential manifestation of the island’s commitment to Africa. A key moment was the 1987–1988 battle of Cuito Cuanavale, which involved Cuba and Angola on one side, and South Africa and its allies on the other. Cuito Cuanavale contributed the end of apartheid and has assumed legendary status within the Cuban Revolution and the southern African liberation movement.

Cuba, Africa, and Apartheid’s End is a definitive account of Cuba’s role in the liberation of southern Africa, especially South Africa and Namibia, centering on the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale. Isaac Saney skillfully and meticulously chronicles the internationalism of the Cuban government and its people to repay Cuba’s debt to Africa, the ancestral homeland of so many of its citizens. -- Hakim Adi, University of Chichester; author of African and Caribbean People in Britain: A History
Cuba, Africa, and Apartheid's End deserves to be very widely read. -- Wayne Dooling, SOAS University of London; author of Slavery, Emancipation and Colonial Rule in South Africa
Cuba, Africa and Apartheid's End is a significant contribution to the understanding of events in southern Africa during the 1980s and 1990s. -- Robert Ross, professor emeritus, University of Leiden
Isaac Saney offers an authoritative account of Cuba’s role in liberating Namibia and South Africa that is centred on the battle of Cuito Cuanavale (1987-1988). With skilful attention to detail and a meticulous use of sources, the book exposes the full breath of Cuba’s internationalism and updates the historical and symbolic ties between the Caribbean island and the African continent. * International Affairs *
Isaac Saney offers an authoritative account of Cuba’s role in liberating Namibia and South Africa that is centred on the battle of Cuito Cuanavale (1987-1988). With skilful attention to detail and a meticulous use of sources, the book exposes the full breath of Cuba’s internationalism and updates the historical and symbolic ties between the Caribbean island and the African continent... this book offers a good example of the importance of the historian’s meticulous craft, as well as the significance of the Africa – Diaspora relationship and its Pan African ambition to our understanding of today’s world. * Australian Outlook *

ISBN: 9781498591317

Dimensions: 237mm x 157mm x 24mm

Weight: 635g

332 pages