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Trustee for the Human Community: Ralph J. Bunche, the United Nations, and the Decolonization of Africa
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Ralph J. Bunche (1904-1971), winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950, was a key U.S. diplomat in the planning and creation of the United Nations in 1945. In 1947 he was invited to join the permanent UN Secretariat as director of the new Trusteeship Department. In this position, Bunche played a key role in setting up the trusteeship system that provided important impetus for postwar decolonization ending European control of Africa as well as an international framework for the oversight of the decolonization process after the Second World War.
Trustee for the Human Community is the first volume to examine the totality of Bunche's unrivalled role in the struggle for African independence both as a key intellectual and an international diplomat and to illuminate it from the broader African American perspective.
These commissioned essays examine the full range of Ralph Bunche's involvement in Africa. The scholars explore sensitive political issues, such as Bunche's role in the Congo and his views on the struggle in South Africa. Trustee for the Human Community stands as a monument to the profoundly important role of one of the greatest Americans in one of the greatest political movements in the history of the twentieth century.
Contributors: David Anthony, Ralph A. Austen, Abena P. A. Busia, Neta C. Crawford, Robert R. Edgar, Charles P. Henry, Robert A. Hill, Edmond J. Keller, Martin Kilson, Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, Jon Olver, Pearl T. Robinson, Elliott P. Skinner, Crawford Young
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780821419090 |
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Publisher: | Ohio University Press |
Publication date: | 08/15/2010 |
Edition description: | 1 |
Pages: | 228 |
Product dimensions: | 6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d) |
About the Author
Edmond J. Keller is chair and professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and director of the Globalization Research Center–Africa. He is the author of two monographs, including Revolutionary Ethiopia: From Empire to People’s Republic, and coeditor of six volumes on African politics and public policy.
Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments vii
Introduction Robert A. Hill Edmond J. Keller ix
Centenary Memory Beads for Mr. Bunche Abena P. A. Busia xix
1 Bunche the Africanist Intellectual
Chapter 1 Ralph Bunche
African American Intellectual Martin Kilson 3
Chapter 2 Ralph Bunche and the Dawn of Africanist Scholarship David Anthony 19
Chapter 3 The Making of an Africanist
Ralph Bunche in South Africa, 1937 Robert Edgar 25
Chapter 4 Ralph Bunche and the Decolonization of African Studies
The Paradox of Power, Morality, and Scholarship Elliott P. Skinner 42
Chapter 5 Ralph Bunche the Africanist
Revisiting Paradigms Lost Pearl T. Robinson 69
2 Bunche the Statesman for Africa
Chapter 6 Decolonization through Trusteeship
The Legacy of Ralph Bunche Neta C. Crawford 93
Chapter 7 An Unexpected Challenge
Ralph Bunche as Field Commander in the Congo, 1960 John Olver 116
Chapter 8 Ralph Bunche and Patrice Lumumba
The Fatal Encounter Crawford Young 128
Chapter 9 Ralph Bunche, Patrice Lumumba, and the First Congo Crisis Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja 148
3 Reflections on Bunche's Legacy in Global Perspective
Chapter 10 Africa in the Global Decolonization Process
The Road to Postcoloniality Ralph A. Austen 161
Epilogue Charles P. Henry 181
Appendix United Nations Charter: The Trusteeship System 185
Contributors 193
Index 199