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dc.contributor.authorCullen, P
dc.contributor.authorMcCorriston, S
dc.contributor.authorThompson, A
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-14T08:52:56Z
dc.date.issued2021-10-18
dc.description.abstractThis article sheds new light on NGO activity across Africa after the Second World War and the vital yet overlooked role played by non-state actors in the process of decolonisation. The International Council of Voluntary Agencies’ ‘Repertory of Africa’s NGOs’ (1968), analysed here for the first time, yields unprecedented insights into the ‘first wave’ of NGO expansion as an important aspect of the history of twentieth century international relations. We situate ICVA’s Repertory in the spate of ‘Big Surveys’ which questioned development policy and practice. We then examine the link between decolonisation and NGO expansion and evolution. Decolonisation was a global phenomenon, involving a wide array of non-state actors intent upon shaping the post-colonial world. The Repertory provides a stronger basis for the view that ex-colonial powers expected to retain close links with former colonies and colonial connections were replicated through NGO activities. Global history is not only a matter of empire, however. We further reveal how, already by the later 1960s, territorial pathways forged by colonialism were disrupted by international NGOs from countries with no history of imperialism in Africa, and how an expanding footprint of indigenous NGOs gave Africans the means to assert agency over development agendas and take back vital aspects of their own governance amidst ‘second wave decolonisation’.en_GB
dc.identifier.citationPublished online 18 October 2021en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/07075332.2021.1976810
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/127459
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherRoutledgeen_GB
dc.rights.embargoreasonUnder embargo until 18 April 2023 in compliance with publisher policyen_GB
dc.rights© 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This version is made available under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/  en_GB
dc.subjectNon-Governmental Organisationsen_GB
dc.subjectAfricaen_GB
dc.subjectDecolonisationen_GB
dc.subjectInternational Developmenten_GB
dc.titleThe “Big Survey”: Decolonisation, Development and the First Wave of NGO Expansion in Africa after 1945en_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2021-10-14T08:52:56Z
dc.identifier.issn0707-5332
dc.descriptionThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in this recorden_GB
dc.identifier.journalInternational History Reviewen_GB
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/  en_GB
dcterms.dateAccepted2021-09-03
rioxxterms.versionAMen_GB
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2021-09-03
rioxxterms.typeJournal Article/Reviewen_GB
refterms.dateFCD2021-10-13T15:38:14Z
refterms.versionFCDAM
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© 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This version is made available under the CC-BY-NC 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/  
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