| Africa in the World Subjects: Africa -- History -- 20th century; Africa -- Politics and government -- 20th century; Africa -- Foreign relations -- 20th century; African diaspora; At the Second World War's end, it was clear that business as usual in colonized Africa would not resume. W. E. B. Du Bois's The World and Africa , published in 1946, recognized the depth of the crisis that the war had brought to Europe, and hence to Europe's domination over much of the globe. Du Bois believed that Africa's past provided lessons for its future, for international statecraft, and for humanity's mastery of social relations and commerce. Frederick Cooper revisits a history in which Africans were both empire-builders and the objects of colonization, and participants in the events that gave rise to global capitalism. Cooper Frederick : Frederick Cooper is Professor of History at New York University. |