Anticolonial Worldmaking and the Vietnam War: Cold War geopolitics and non-aligned diplomacy
1. “Dead End Diplomacy: Nyerere, Nkrumah, and Asymmetric Sincerity in the Commonwealth Peace Mission to Vietnam” by Paul Bjerk (Texas Tech University, USA)
2. “Global Solidarities: How the Vietnam War Shaped African Anti-Imperialism Worldmaking” by John Dotse (University of Toronto, Canada) and Maxwell Bogpene (University of British Columbia, Canada)
3. “It is easy to accept…that in war these things often happen:” the failure of rhetoric as a strategy of war in the Ojukwu’s experience of the Nigerian Civil War, 1967-1970” by E.O. Ojelabi (Texas Tech University, USA)
Discussant: Suzanne Enzerink (University of St Gallen, Switzerland)
Some speakers are in person, some are online, you can attend in person or online: zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PSnC2PMTSWGdMuIxemavcw
Date: 27 June 2024, 11:45 (Thursday, 10th week, Trinity 2024)
Venue: Rothermere American Institute, 1A South Parks Road OX1 3UB
Speakers: Paul Bjerk (Texas Tech University), John Dotse (University of Toronto), Maxwell Bogpene (University of British Columbia), E. O. Ojelabi (Texas Tech University)
Organisers: Natalya Vince (University College, Oxford), Dr Uta Balbier (St Anne's College, Oxford), Luke Melchiorre (Universidad de los Andes), Dan Hodgkinson (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: africa.vietnamwar24@gmail.com
Part of: Africans and war in Vietnam: global protest, liberation politics and transnational soldiers
Booking required?: Required
Booking email: africa.vietnamwar24@gmail.com
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Natalya Vince