HIAF 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Anti-Imperialism, Social Distance, Nuclear Arms Race
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Hiaf 111 lecture 9 independence movements. Founds umkhonto we sizwe (cid:862) pear of the natio(cid:374)(cid:863) 19(cid:1010)1: militant resistance group against sa government, sabotage, blowing up train lines, attacking infrastructure, disrupting sa economy by attacking coal -> gasoline industry. Instead, sentenced him to life in prison, and sa government tried to isolate him: no communication from outside world besides rare visits from his wife, 1962-1990, held in prison island off the coast of capetown. Like alcatraz: gets out of prison and becomes influential leader of the anc. Zimbabwe (rhodesia) and sa technically independent but are under white minority rule until 1980 and 1994: between late 1950s and early 1970s everything changed politically on the continent, with almost all african countries gaining independence. Some were peaceful mass-movements: angola and mozambique long civil wars that lasted from 1960s-1970s, civil war in algeria, since france wanted to hold onto the colony until 1962, pattern of simultaneous decolonization of african states.
