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Decisive Decades: How USSR and Cuba Backed Africa's Liberation Movements
Decisive Decades: How USSR and Cuba Backed Africa's Liberation Movements
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Decisive Decades: How USSR and Cuba Backed Africa's Liberation Movements
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As the world commemorates the birthday of Fidel Castro, a Cuban revolutionary, not a few believe that his sustained assistance and strategic commitment to Africa became a turning point in the continent's battle against colonial rule and apartheid.
The allies' support between 1960 and 1990, for many Pan-African analysts, did not stop at a negotiating table but at the battlefield and in the training of a generation of leaders in Africa.In this episode of the Redrawn Africa podcast, Professor Abdulkabir Baba Hassan, a distinguished scholar and former director of the academic planning unit at the University of Abuja, Nigeria, who experienced this legacy firsthand as a student in the Soviet Union during the 1980s, is featured. He spoke about what he emphasized as the comprehensive architecture of Soviet and Cuban support—from military training and arms shipments to diplomatic cover and human capital development.
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Decisive Decades: How USSR and Cuba Backed Africa's Liberation Movements
15:55 13.08.2026 (Updated: 18:06 13.08.2026) As the world commemorates the birthday of Fidel Castro, a Cuban revolutionary, not a few believe that his sustained assistance and strategic commitment to Africa became a turning point in the continent's battle against colonial rule and apartheid.
The allies' support between 1960 and 1990, for many Pan-African analysts, did not stop at a negotiating table but at the battlefield and in the training of a generation of leaders in Africa.
In this episode of the Redrawn Africa podcast, Professor Abdulkabir Baba Hassan, a distinguished scholar and former director of the academic planning unit at the University of Abuja, Nigeria, who experienced this legacy firsthand as a student in the Soviet Union during the 1980s, is featured. He spoke about what he emphasized as the comprehensive architecture of Soviet and Cuban support—from military training and arms shipments to diplomatic cover and human capital development.
"USSR framed decolonization as part of a global anti-imperialist struggle. This gave liberation movements legitimacy and a bloc of allies during the Cold War. That is, the war was not pronounced; it was on the ground between the Western powers and former Soviet Union republics," Prof. A.B. Hassan insists.
