Africans and the Holocaust - Perceptions and Responses of Colonized and Sovereign Peoples

This book is an original and comparative study of reactions in West and East Africa to the persecution and attempted annihilation of Jews in Europe, and in former German colonies in East Africa during the Second World War.

List of contents

1. Jews in East and West Africa before the Holocaust 2. Africans and Nazism 3. Africans and World War II 4. Africans and the Holocaust 5. African and British Proposals on Jewish refugees

About the author

Edward Kissi is an associate professor in the Department of Africana Studies at the University of South Florida, United States.

Summary

This book is an original and comparative study of reactions in West and East Africa to the persecution and attempted annihilation of Jews in Europe, and in former German colonies in East Africa during the Second World War.

Product details

• Authors: Edward Kissi, Edward (University of South Florida Kissi, Kissi Edward
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.09.2019
• EAN: 9780367195373
• ISBN: 978-0-367-19537-3
• No. of pages: 194
• Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Africa
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Europe, HISTORY / Africa / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, The Holocaust, African History, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / Holocaust, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater