Red Africa: Affective Communities and the Cold War, edited by Mark Nash politics and above all to fulfil

and above all to fulfil her ambition of becoming a writer

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Red Africa: Affective Communities and the Cold War, edited by Mark Nash politics and above all to fulfilIt is now 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the fragmentation of the Soviet Union into a series of republics and the rejection of communist politics in much of the former Eastern Bloc. Seen by many as a victory for the capitalist West over the communist East, the geopolitics of this period was far more complicated than this. Across a series of essays and artist contributions, Red Africa explores the crosscurrents of international solidarity