BB: Goran Musić & Rory Archer – “A Socialist Workplace in Postcolonial Africa: A Connected History of the Yugoslav Workforce in Zambia”
As a founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement, socialist Yugoslavia stood between East and West (aligned neither with Soviet-style central economic planning nor the capitalist West), setting much stock in its economic, diplomatic, and cultural relationships with the Third World.
Newly independent African countries like Zambia became Yugoslavia’s primary allies in the Global South. Read more