In this episode, SCGH editor Paul Feeney discusses postcolonialism in Africa with Frank Gerits and Matteo Grilli. In their new book: "Visions of African Unity: New Perspectives on the History of Pan-Africanism and African Unification Projects", they have edited a collection of essays exploring the political and cultural visions that informed projects aimed at African unification.

Matteo Grilli is a postdoctoral fellow in the International Studies Group at the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. He specializes in decolonization and Pan-Africanism. He is the author of Nkrumaism and African Nationalism: Ghana’s Pan-African Foreign Policy in the Age of Decolonization (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

Frank Gerits is Assistant Professor in the History of International Relations at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He previously held postdoctoral positions at New York University, USA, and the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa.

"Visions of African Unity" is available for purchase at: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030529109#aboutAuthors