Navigating socialist encounters : moorings and (dis)entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War / edited by Eric Burton, Anne Dietrich, Immanuel R. Harisch, and Marcia C. Schenck

• HerausgeberIn: Burton, Eric 1987-; Dietrich, Anne 1983-; Harisch, Immanuel R. 1990-; Schenck, Marcia C.
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin, Boston : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, [2021]; © 2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Africa in global history Volume 2
• Physical Description: 1 Online-Ressource
• Notes: Enthält Literaturangaben und ein Register

This edited volume examines entanglements and disentanglements between Africa and East Germany during and after the Cold War from a global history perspective. Extending the view beyond political elites, it asks for the negotiated and plural character of socialism in these encounters and sheds light on migration, media, development, and solidarity through personal and institutional agency. With its distinctive focus on moorings and unmoorings, the volume shows how the encounters, albeit often brief, significantly influenced both African and East German histories

This edited volume firmly places African history into global history by highlighting connections between African and East German actors and institutions during the Cold War. With a special focus on negotiations and African influences on East Germany (and vice versa), the volume sheds light on personal and institutional agency, cultural cross-fertilization, migration, development, and solidarity

Table of Contents

Introduction: Moorings and (dis)entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War -- I Shaping Pioneering Institutions -- 2 Herder vs. Goethe in Egypt: East and West German language courses in Cairo and the evolution of "German as a Foreign Language" (DaF) -- 3 "In the spirit of Harambee!" Kenyan Student Unions in the German Democratic Republic and Yugoslavia, 1964-68 -- 4 Agency and its limits: African Unionists as Africa's "vanguard" at the FDGB College in Bernau -- 5 The negotiations of the Contract Labor Accord between the GDR and Mozambique -- II Navigating the GDR: moorings and (dis)entanglements -- 6 The rise and fall of a socialist future: ambivalent encounters between Zanzibar and East Germany in the Cold War -- 7 My impression of the German Democratic Republic [Life itself exposes lies] -- 8 Echoes of the past: the social impact of the returned labor migrants from East Germany on the City of Maputo -- 9 Socialist encounters at the School of Friendship -- 10 Paths are made by walking: memories of being a Mozambican contract worker in the GDR -- III Sourcing visions of solidarity -- 11 So close, yet so far: Ulrich Makosch and the GDR's Afrikabild on screen and in text -- 12 Diaries of solidarity in the global Cold War: the East German friendship brigades and their experience in 'modernizing' Angola -- 13 Between state mission and everyday life: private photographs of East Germans in Mozambique in the 1980s -- 14 A (post)socialist memory space? East German and Mozambican memories of cooperation in education.