Navigating Socialist Encounters : : Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War /

Navigating Socialist Encounters : : Moorings and (Dis)Entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War / / ed. by Eric Burton, Anne Dietrich, Immanuel Harisch, Marcia Schenck.

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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...

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MitwirkendeR:
Agostinho Machava, Fernando,
Alberto, Ibraimo,
Alvarado, Christian,
Angermann, Eric,
Bahr, Katrin,
Bodie, George,
Buanaissa, Eduardo F.,
Burgess, G. Thomas,
Burton, Eric,
Depta, Jörg,
Dietrich, Anne,
Harisch, Immanuel R.,
Hartmetz, Anne-Kristin,
Osei, J. A.,
Piepiorka, Alexandra,
Rantzsch, Franziska,
Raposo, Francisca,
Schenck, Marcia C.,
Sprute, Paul,
HerausgeberIn:
Burton, Eric,
Dietrich, Anne,
Harisch, Immanuel ,
Schenck, Marcia,
Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Africa in Global History Ser.
Physical Description:1 online resource (VI, 400 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • 1 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
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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