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Trustee for the Human Community : Ralph J. Bunche, the United Nations, and the Decolonization of Africa, Hardback Book

Trustee for the Human Community : Ralph J. Bunche, the United Nations, and the Decolonization of Africa Hardback

Edited by Robert A. Hill, Edmond J. Keller

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Ralph J. Bunche (1904–1971), winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950, was a key U.S. diplomat in the planning and creation of the United Nations in 1945.

In 1947 he was invited to join the permanent UN Secretariat as director of the new Trusteeship Department.

In this position, Bunche played a key role in setting up the trusteeship system that provided important impetus for postwar decolonization ending European control of Africa as well as an international framework for the oversight of the decolonization process after the Second World War. Trustee for the Human Community is the first volume to examine the totality of Bunche’s unrivalled role in the struggle for African independence both as a key intellectual and an international diplomat and to illuminate it from the broader African American perspective. These commissioned essays examine the full range of Ralph Bunche’s involvement in Africa.

The scholars explore sensitive political issues, such as Bunche’s role in the Congo and his views on the struggle in South Africa.

Trustee for the Human Community stands as a monument to the profoundly important role of one of the greatest Americans in one of the greatest political movements in the history of the twentieth century. Contributors: David Anthony, Ralph A. Austen, Abena P. A. Busia, Neta C. Crawford, Robert R. Edgar, Charles P. Henry, Robert A. Hill, Edmond J. Keller, Martin Kilson, Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, Jon Olver, Pearl T.

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