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The Cambridge History of Africa. Volume 7, From c.1940 to c.1975 Michael Crowder, ed. 1984. 5 b/w illus. 33 maps 56 tables 1027 pages

The eighth and final volume of The Cambridge History of Africa covers the period 1940–1975. It begins with a discussion of the role of the Second World War in the political decolonisation of Africa. Its terminal date of 1975 coincides with the retreat of Portugal, the last European colonial power in Africa, from its possessions and their accession to independence. The fifteen chapters which make up this volume examine on both a continental and regional scale the extent to which formal transfer of political power by the European colonial rulers also involved economic, social and cultural decolonisation. A major theme of the volume is the way the African successors to the colonial rulers dealt with their inheritance and how far they benefited particular economic groups and disadvantaged others. Special attention is paid in the chapters on Southern Africa and East and Central Africa to the problems posed by the continued role of white minority regimes in the Republic of South Africa, Rhodesia under UDI and Namibia. In the independent countries the limitations imposed on their options — political and economic — by poverty, population growth and the continued commercial domination of the former colonial powers and their allies, are analysed in the context of current theories of dependence and underdevelopment. The contributors to this volume represent different disciplinary traditioins — history, political science, economics and sociology — and do not share a single theoretical perspective on the recent history of the continent, a subject that is still the occasion for passionate debate, and for which the primary sources are still largely unavailable. Rather they reflect the variety of views and vigour of scholarship that have been brought to bear on a continent for which scholarly concern has itself been a comparatively recent development.

Contents

List of figures
Preface

Introduction
by Michael Crowder, Professor of History, University of Botswana

1. The Second World War: prelude to decolonisation in Africa
   by Michael Crowder
   The course of the war on African soil
   The impact of the Second World War on the colonial powers
   The impact of the Second World War on Africans
   Colonial reforms
   Conclusion
2. Decolonisation and the problems of independence
   by the late Billy J. Dudley, formerly Department of Political Science, University of Ibadan
   Paths to independence
   The constitutional inheritance
   The bureaucracy and the economy
   Social mobilisation
   The military and militarism
   Political leadership and political succession
3. Pan-Africanism since 1940
   by Ian Duffield, Department of History, University of Edinburgh
   The 1945 Pan-African Congress
   The African diaspora and post-1945 Pan-Africanism
   The road to the Organisation of African Unity
   Nationalism, regionalism and African unity
   Pan-Africanism and the armed liberation struggles
   Pan-Africanism and world affairs
   Pan-Africanism and culture
4. Social and cultural change
   by J.D.Y. Peel, Professor of Sociology, University of Liverpool
   Patterns of migration
   The growth of towns
   Changing bases of identity
   Class formation
   State and society
   Cultural change
5. The economic evolution of developing Africa
   by Adebayo Adedeji, United Nations Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Africa
   The colonial economy on the eve of the Second World War
   The performance of the African economy, 1940-75
   Structural and sectoral changes
   The search for economic integration
   Africa and the international economy
   Conclusion
6. Southern Africa
   by Francis Wils0n, Professor of Economics, University of Cape Town
   Industrial revolution in South Africa, 1936-76
   Politics 1936-6o
   South Africa's neighbours
   Maintaining the white republic, 1961-76
   The struggle for liberation, 1961-77
   Conclusion
7. English-speaking West Africa
   by David Williams
   The impact of the Second World War
   Decolonisation
   The problems of independence
   Social, cultural and educational developments
   Regional relations
   Economics
   Conclusion
8. East and Central Africa
   by Cherry Gertzel, School of Social Sciences, The Flinders University of South Australia
   Political and constitutional development
   Economic development
   Social change
   Education
   Inter-state and external relations
9. The Horn of Africa
   by Christopher Clapham, Department of Politics, University of Lancaster
   The setting
   The restored Ethiopian empire, 1941-57
   The peripheral administrations
   Politicisation and its outcome
   Political decay and revolution
   Regional and international relationships
   Social and economic change
   Urbanisation and education Economic development
   Agriculture
   Conclusion
10. Egypt, Libya and the Sudan
    by Hans-Heino Kopietz, and Pamela Ann Smith
    Decolonisation and independence
    International relations Social and cultural change

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