African Nationalism in Cold War Politics

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Dr. Emmanuel Konde is a professor of history at Albany State University. He received the PhD in history from Boston University in 1991, specializing in African history, modern European history, and United States foreign relations. Emmanuel holds an MA in history from Boston University (1985), an MA in political science from Northeastern University (1984), and a BA in political economy from Hillsdale College (1982). A 1998 to 1999 United States Fulbright Scholar to Sub-Saharan Africa, Dr. Konde taught graduate history courses at the University of Buea and conducted research on women and politics in Cameroon. He is the author of four books—Bassa Antiquity in Contemporary Limbe (2010), African Women and Politics: Knowledge, Gender, and Power in Male-Dominated Cameroon (2005), European Invention of African Slavery: Origins of the Atlantic Slave Trade in West Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas (2005), The Bassa of Cameroon: An Indigenous African Democracy Confronts European Colonialism (Tapestry, 1998)—and coedited The United States, Africa, and the World: A History Reader with Janice Sumler-Edmond and Linda Tomlinson (1997 and 1998).