Cuba, Africa, and Apartheid's End

Cuba, Africa, and Apartheid’s End is a definitive account of Cuba’s role in the liberation of southern Africa, especially South Africa and Namibia, centering on the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale. Isaac Saney skillfully and meticulously chronicles the internationalism of the Cuban government and its people to repay Cuba’s debt to Africa, the ancestral homeland of so many of its citizens. -- Hakim Adi, University of Chichester; author of <i>African and Caribbean People in Britain: A History</i> Cuba, Africa, and Apartheid's End deserves to be very widely read. -- Wayne Dooling, SOAS University of London; author of <i>Slavery, Emancipation and Colonial Rule in South Africa</i> Cuba, Africa and Apartheid's End is a significant contribution to the understanding of events in southern Africa during the 1980s and 1990s. -- Robert Ross, professor emeritus, University of Leiden Isaac Saney offers an authoritative account of Cuba’s role in liberating Namibia and South Africa that is centred on the battle of Cuito Cuanavale (1987-1988). With skilful attention to detail and a meticulous use of sources, the book exposes the full breath of Cuba’s internationalism and updates the historical and symbolic ties between the Caribbean island and the African continent. * International Affairs * Isaac Saney offers an authoritative account of Cuba’s role in liberating Namibia and South Africa that is centred on the battle of Cuito Cuanavale (1987-1988). With skilful attention to detail and a meticulous use of sources, the book exposes the full breath of Cuba’s internationalism and updates the historical and symbolic ties between the Caribbean island and the African continent... this book offers a good example of the importance of the historian’s meticulous craft, as well as the significance of the Africa – Diaspora relationship and its Pan African ambition to our understanding of today’s world. * Australian Outlook *