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Odinga’s Treachery and Diplomacy is a masterful and provocative study of the intricate dynamics of US-Africa relations. Focused on the US “security” partnerships with Africa from the Cold War to the increasingly-hot present, Odinga details the innovative strategies African leaders used in their negotiations with various US regimes. He shows how they leveraged their own domestic security and regional power projections to gain both military aid and political support – even while enabling the imperialist militarization of the African continent. The book provides incredible insight concerning African agency in the context of severe power asymmetries. It is also a pathbreaking and startlingly original study of racial politics, Pan-Africanist rhetorics, and the maneuvering of moderate African American political leaders in the forging of US-Africa statecraft. Odinga tells a real-world story of power, stealth, and intrigue in elegant, captivating prose. A singular, groundbreaking contribution to political science, foreign relations, and African and African American studies, Treachery and Diplomacy offers an urgently-needed guide to US-Africa relations. -- Jemima Pierre, author of <i>The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race</i>

Odinga’s Treachery and Diplomacy is a masterful and provocative study of the intricate dynamics of US-Africa relations. Focused on the US “security” partnerships with Africa from the Cold War to the increasingly-hot present, Odinga details the innovative strategies African leaders used in their negotiations with various US regimes. He shows how they leveraged their own domestic security and regional power projections to gain both military aid and political support – even while enabling the imperialist militarization of the African continent. The book provides incredible insight concerning African agency in the context of severe power asymmetries. It is also a pathbreaking and startlingly original study of racial politics, Pan-Africanist rhetorics, and the maneuvering of moderate African American political leaders in the forging of US-Africa statecraft. Odinga tells a real-world story of power, stealth, and intrigue in elegant, captivating prose. A singular, groundbreaking contribution to political science, foreign relations, and African and African American studies, Treachery and Diplomacy offers an urgently-needed guide to US-Africa relations. -- Jemima Pierre, author of <i>The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race</i> In Odinga’s original, illuminating history of US-Africa security relations, he highlights African allies as active players and capable negotiators within their relationships with successive US administrations. In addition, the book provides a nuanced characterization of African American politicians and activists, demonstrating the range of positions taken by these figures, both in support of US-Africa security partnerships and against them. -- Robert Vitalis, author of <i>White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations</i>

This book is a pathbreaking and startlingly original study of racial politics, Pan-Africanist rhetorics, and the maneuvering of moderate African American political leaders in the forging of US-Africa statecraft. Odinga tells a real-world story of power, stealth, and intrigue in elegant, captivating prose. A singular, groundbreaking contribution to political science, foreign relations, and African and African American studies, Treachery and Diplomacy is an urgently needed guide to US-Africa relations that offers incredible insight into African agency in the context of severe power asymmetries. -- Jemima Pierre, author of <i>The Predicament of Blackness: Postcolonial Ghana and the Politics of Race</i> In Odinga’s original, illuminating history of US-Africa security relations, he highlights African allies as active players and capable negotiators within their relationships with successive US administrations. In addition, the book provides a nuanced characterization of African American politicians and activists, demonstrating the range of positions taken by these figures, both in support of US-Africa security partnerships and against them. -- Robert Vitalis, author of <i>White World Order, Black Power Politics: The Birth of American International Relations</i>

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Sobukwe Odinga is an assistant professor in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.

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