In this episode, SCGH editor Paul Feeney discusses postcolonialism in Africa with Frank Gerits and Matteo Grilli. In their new book: "Visions of African Unity: New Perspectives on the History of Pan-Africanism and African Unification Projects", they have edited a collection of essays exploring the political and cultural visions that informed projects aimed at African unification.

Matteo Grilli is a postdoctoral fellow in the International Studies Group at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. He specializes in decolonization and Pan-Africanism. He is the author of Nkrumaism and African Nationalism: Ghana’s Pan-African Foreign Policy in the Age of Decolonization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

Frank Gerits is Assistant Professor in the History of International Relations at Utrecht University, the Netherla ...