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This is a Book Review of Maghreb Noir. The book examines the involvement of North African countries and governments in the liberation struggles throughout the global south in the 1960s and 1970s. The book discusses how the Maghreb countries (specifically, Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia) served as hubs of revolutionary activities by artists and freedom fighters from the continent of Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas.

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This is a Book Review of Maghreb Noir. The book examines the involvement of North African countries and governments in the liberation struggles throughout the global south in the 1960s and 1970s. The book discusses how the Maghreb countries (specifically, Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia) served as hubs of revolutionary activities by artists and freedom fighters from the continent of Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas.

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This is a Book Review of Maghreb Noir. The book examines the involvement of North African countries and governments in the liberation struggles throughout the global south in the 1960s and 1970s. The book discusses how the Maghreb countries (specifically, Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia) served as hubs of revolutionary activities by artists and freedom fighters from the continent of Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas.

Prof. Imani SANGA
University of Dar es Salaam

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This page is a summary of: Paraska Tolan-Szkilnik. Maghreb Noir: The Militant-Artists of North Africa and Struggle for a Pan-African, Postcolonial Future. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. xvi + 251 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $30.00. Paper. ISBN: 978-1503635913., African Studies Review, September 2024, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/asr.2024.75.
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