Soviet Policy in West Africa

by Robert Legvold

This is a study of Soviet policy in six West African countries: Ghana, Guinea, the Ivory Coast, Mali, Nigeria, and Senegal. Robert Legvold analyzes the awakening of Soviet Interest in sub-Saharan Africa and the growth, problems, and influences of the Soviet involvement from Ghana's independence in 1957 to 1968.

Those nations are significant not only because they were the first African colonies to achieve independence and therefore...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674420772
• ISBN13: 9780674420779
• Release Date: February 1970
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"