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'Melanie Torrent's book is an important scholarly contribution to international relations at the end of European empires and in the age of African independences. It will find a powerful resonance outside academia in diplomacy, not only from the point of view of the historian, but because her masterly analysis of such a complex web of political and cultural issues provides present and future practitioners on the African scene with a compelling reference, which could be termed post-post colonial . It also undoubtedly offers a renewed approach to decolonisation and nationbuilding on the background of debates between the post-colonial theory and its consequences on the theory of international relations.' -Jean-Claude Redonnet, Professor (Emeritus) and Research Director at Universite de Paris-Sorbonne

"'Melanie Torrent's book is an important scholarly contribution to international relations at the end of European empires and in the age of African independences. It will find a powerful resonance outside academia in diplomacy, not only from the point of view of the historian, but because her masterly analysis of such a complex web of political and cultural issues provides present and future practitioners on the African scene with a compelling reference, which could be termed ""post-post colonial"". It also undoubtedly offers a renewed approach to decolonisation and nationbuilding on the background of debates between the post-colonial theory and its consequences on the theory of international relations.' -Jean-Claude Redonnet, Professor (Emeritus) and Research Director at Universite de Paris-Sorbonne"

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Melanie Torrent is senior lecturer in British history and civilisation at the Institut Charles V, Universite Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cite. She holds an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge and completed her PhD in English Studies at the Universite Paris-Sorbonne.

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