Entangled Ends of Empire

The role of France and Francophone Africa in the decolonisation of Rhodesia

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4549451
AutoresJoanna Warson (autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume16
Fascículo1
Data de publicação2015-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Colonialism and Colonial History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1532-5768 • E-ISSN: 1532-5768
EditoraProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/cch.2015.0003
OpenAlexW2025206328
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas7

This article will analyse the support given to Rhodesia by France and certain Francophone African states following the White settler government's Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965. These external actors, crossing national and imperial boundaries, shaped the transition to majority rule in Rhodesia. Furthermore, the end of empire in Francophone Africa and the wider international context informed this outside influence over Rhodesian decolonisation. This article will demonstrate, therefore, that the end of empire in Rhodesia was shaped by numerous external connections, thus revealing the possibilities available to historians of twentieth-century decolonisation when employing a connected global history approach

Archaeology · Colonialism · Context (archaeology · Declaration · Declaration of independence · Decolonization · Economic history · Empire · Ethnology · French · Genealogy · Government (linguistics · Independence (probability theory · Linguistics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · History · Law · Philosophy