The ideological scramble for Africa : how the pursuit of anticolonial modernity shaped a postcolonial order, 1945-1966 / Frank Gerits.

Frank Gerits examines how African leaders in the 1950s and 1960s crafted an anticolonial modernization project. Rather than choose Cold War sides between East and West, anticolonial nationalists worked to reverse the psychological and cultural destruction of colonialism.