Liberation of Portuguese Africa, 1961-75

Pedro Aires Oliveira is an Associate Professor in the History Department of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal, where he is also a Researcher in the Institute of Contemporary History. Fernando Tavares Pimenta is a Researcher and President of the Scientific Council of the Centro de Estudos de História do Atlântico-Alberto Vieira (CEHA-AV/DRABL) in Madeira Island, as well as an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Contemporary History, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal.Aurora Almada e Santos is a Researcher in the Institute of Contemporary History, at NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal.

• 1. Introduction; Pedro Aires Oliveira, Fernando Tavares Pimenta and Aurora Almada e Santos.- Part I. Cross-border Sanctuaries.- 2. Leopoldville: The Reception and the Crises in the Angolan Liberation Movements; Marcelo Bittencourt.- 3. The MPLA in Congo-Brazzaville, 1963–1975: The Tribulations of an Exile in a Revolutionary Land; Jean-Michel Mabeko-Tali.- 4. Conakry as a Hub of Exile, Anti-colonialism and the Decolonisation Process: The PAIGC and the Liberation of Guinea, 1959–1973; Julião Soares de Sousa.- 5. Dar es Salaam and Portuguese Decolonization in Africa: The Case of Mozambique; Arrigo Pallotti and Corrado Tornimbeni.- Part II. Regional Visions of Pan-Africanism.- 6. Cairo: A Haven for African Nationalism; Mário Machaqueiro.- 7. From Casablanca to Algiers: The Internationalisation and Solidarity with Anti-colonial Movements from Portuguese-Speaking Africa, 1961–1974; Susana Martins.- Part III. Ties to Socialist Cities.- 8. Networking Liberation, Translating Revolution: China’s Support of Anti-colonial Struggles in Lusophone Africa, 1954-1975; Jodie Yuzhou Sun and Mingqing Yuan.- 9. Moscow as an Anti-colonial Hub for Lusophone African Activists: Power Hierarchies and Solidarity Networks; Natalia Telepneva and Daria Zelenova.- Part IV. Incubators of Non-state Actors.- 10. New York as a Site of Activism against Portuguese Colonialism: 1961–1974; Aurora Almada e Santos.- 11. São Paulo: MABLA and the Support for the Angolan Liberation Struggle; Fernando Tavares Pimenta.- 12. Defying Portuguese Colonialism under the Shadow of the ‘Old Alliance’: London in the Long Sixties; Pedro Aires Oliveira.- 13. PAIGC Militants, Portuguese Exiles and Anti-colonial Activism in Paris; Víctor Barros.- Part V. Afterword.- 14. Afterword; Norrie MacQueen.