Worldmaking after empire: The rise and fall of self-determination - Getachew, Adom (Princeton Princeton University Press, 2019)
Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable transition from a world of empires to one of nations$1 (Ba world in which self-determination was synonymous with nation-building$1 (Bobscure just how radical this change was. Drawing on the political thought of anticolonial intellectuals and statesmen such as Nnamdi Azikiwe, W.E.B Du Bois, George Padmore, Kwame Nkrumah, Eric Williams, Michael Manley, and Julius Nyerere, this important new account of decolonization reveals the full extent of their unprecedented s
Keywords: Decolonization; League of Nations; Self-Determination