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“If You Liked Vietnam, You’ll Love Angola”: The Black Panther Party, Afro-Asian Anti-Imperialisms, and Intercommunal Solidarity

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: This paper revolves around the de rigueur claim in the mid-1970s that Angola was “the new Vietnam.” It does so through an analysis of a variety of sources, primarily the regular coverage offered of imperialist intervention in the south-west African country by the Black Panther Party in their newspaper, The Black Panther Intercommunal News Service . We trace a history of Afro-Asian print cultures to better situate the “intercommunalism” of The Black Panther as well as some of the particulars of political economy which made the anti-imperialist connection between Vietnam and Angola apparent to so many.

Source: Journal of Asian and African Studies

DOI: 10.1177/00219096251393416

Authors: Desmond Fonseca, Minh Huynh Vu

Institutions: University of California, Los Angeles, Yale University

Language: English

Topic: Race, History, and American Society

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,650

Funder: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation