Dr. Susan Williams is a senior research fellow in the School of Advanced Study, University of London. Her pathbreaking books include Who Killed Hammarskjöld?, which in 2015 triggered a new, ongoing UN investigation into the death of the UN Secretary General. Spies in the Congo spotlights the link between US espionage in the Congo and the atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945. Colour Bar, the story of Botswana's founding President, was made into the major 2016 film A United Kingdom. A People's King presents an original perspective on the abdication of Edward VIII and his marriage to Wallis Simpson. Susan Williams lives in London.
"What emerges from these testimonies is not a picture of tragedy,
romance or against-the-odds heroism, but a sober assessment of the
tough and sometimes impossible choices facing left-wing
anti-colonial activists who were under pressure from foreign
enemies and foreign allies alike." --The London Review of Books
"This is a sweeping book. Williams is a careful scholar who
extensively details her sources and the evidentiary bases of her
findings, and is unwilling to make claims she cannot support... To
Williams, I give the highest compliment I can give: I wish I had
written this book!" --CounterCurrents
"Susan Williams chronicles imperial legacies with a forensic eye, a
historical mind, and a decolonial sensibility for African agency;
her findings are as stunning as they are transformative." --The
Windham-Campbell Prize Committee
"...[T]he author merits our heartfelt thanks for her indefatigable
labor that has rescued a history that needs to be better known and
will be instrumental in the final defeat of U.S. imperialism on the
beleaguered continent."--CovertAction
"White Malice is a triumph of archival research, and its best
moments come when Williams allows the actors on both sides to speak
for themselves."--Africa is a Country
"[White Malice] overflows with fascinating information, original
research, and bold ideas."--NPR.org
"[A] devastating, superbly researched account."--Daily Maverick
"A deeply distressing history of CIA involvement in plots to
eliminate certain regimes in Africa, particularly in the Congo and
Ghana, just as the countries shook off European colonial rule in
the mid-20th century... Rigorous reporting reveals "America's role
in the deliberate violation of democracy" in newly independent
African nations."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"A new book from historian and academic Dr Susan Williams is always
an eagerly awaited event - and White Malice: The CIA and the
Neocolonialisation of Africa is no exception. Williams has woven
together many of the themes of previous studies to present a
searing indictment of how Western powers interfered with, plundered
and sabotaged the interests of newly independent African nations
and their leaders."--African Business
"A revelatory, meticulous new book."--Unherd
"Beautifully written and carefully researched. It is an important
contribution to the history of Africa in the context of the Cold
War, when the USA and the Soviet Union were locked in a struggle
for African influence and control."--Martin Plaut, former Africa
Editor, BBC World Service News and author of Understanding South
Africa
"Her thesis threatens to disappear amid a forest of historical
detail, but readers interested, especially, in Ghana and Congo will
find her book absorbing."--Boston Globe
"In this masterpiece of historical analysis on the dirty tricks of
the CIA in Africa during the 1960s, Susan Williams delivers her
magnum opus. This richly documented narrative is based on
outstanding scholarly research comprising archival sources from
eight countries and the United Nations, plus numerous other written
and oral sources ... it could not be timelier in throwing light on
the institutionalized racism and hypocrisy of Western powers."
--Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja Professor of African and Global Studies,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"This gripping book meticulously uncovers the role of covert
western interference in two countries."--Labour Hub
"This is a book that every prospective leader in Africa must
read."--Africa Briefing
"This meticulously researched book provides a compelling account of
decolonisation and the forces that sought to thwart that chaotic,
protracted, but ultimately liberating process. An informative read
which, in examining the death throes of the rapacious colonial
project, lays bare the profound injustice imperialism inflicted on
Africa and beyond."--Shashi Tharoor, Indian MP and author of
Inglorious Empire
"This thoroughly-researched account of CIA interference in two
newly independent African nations makes for sobering reading."--The
Scotsman
"Williams does a nice line in intrigue. There is a John le Carré
quality to many of the episodes."--Financial Times
"Williams provides a vivid account of significant aspects of the
[CIA] activity, informed by declassified material and rendered
eminently readable by telling and energetically related
anecdotes."--Survival: Global Politics and Strategy
"Williams takes great care to provide evidence of just how far the
CIA's reach went, the organizations it funded, the many different
ways it tried to gain access and the willingness to use violence to
achieve their goal of a compliant and capitalist Africa...This book
is essential reading."--Spring Magazine
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