Communist Actors in African Decolonial Transitions Comparative Perspectives

Helder Adegar Fonseca is Professor Emeritus at the University of Évora, Portugal. After long time researching European economic, agrarian, and social history, he has been devoting the past decade to the project "Historical Sources of Transnational Regionalism in Southern Africa: The Liberation Movements and ‘White Africa’ as Driving Forces (1960–1980) of regional integration".

Chris Saunders is Professor Emeritus of the University of Cape Town, South Africa, where he was head of the Department of Historical Studies. He has published on many aspects of Southern African history and historiography. Recently, he has worked on the transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa and Namibia and on the regional geopolitics of Southern Africa.

Lena Dallywater is a researcher and coordinator at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig, Germany. She holds a PhD in Global Studies from Leipzig University. Her research focuses on transnational intellectual history, (Pan-)African philosophy, aesthetics and literature, and modes of Black solidarity in a global perspective.