Historical accounts of the era of African decolonization and independence often frame the politics of the moment in terms of the ideological conflict of the Cold War. In his erudite account of this ...

Kelefa Sanneh’s review of two new books about African decolonization brought to mind a passage from Frantz Fanon’s “The Wretched of the Earth,” from the early sixties (A Critic at Large, October 13th) ...