Afro-Asian Visions

In 2016, the Leslie James wrote a piece on this blog discussing visual mapping as a tool for the history of ideas. James discussed two…

Four years ago, Carolien Stolte wrote in this blog on the way in which Bandung shaped a new orientation towards regionalism via the career…

The proclamation of the Indonesian independence on 17 August 1945, and the sudden evaporation of press controls that came with it…

On New Year’s Day in 1958, delegates at the first Afro-Asian Peoples’ Solidarity Conference held their closing sessions in Cairo, after a…

During the Cold War, well before the emergence of post-colonial scholarship in the Anglo-American academy in the 1990s, much of the work…

For oppositional politicians, intellectuals, writers and artists, travel and communication in postcolonial Asia were enterprises fraught…

The establishment of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1949 was met with fanfare throughout the world, signaling China’s ‘rebirth’…

Around 73, 290 West Africans and 46,050 East Africans fought in Asia during World War Two; but Africans did more than serve in combat…

Tan Malaka was a man of many talents. In the course of a fairly brief lifetime, lasting only a little over fifty years (1897–1949), he was…

Colonial histories come in binaries: the official and the subversive. Diplomacy, by its very ‘official’ and ‘international’ nature…

In this earlier post, Su Lin Lewis shows how increased access to air travel did not just facilitate the Afro-Asian conferences of the…

In the mid-1960s, a succession of Tanzanian diplomatic and cultural delegations visited the People’s Republic of China (PRC), following the…