By Gareth M. Winrow
This e-book provides the 1st finished account of the international coverage of East Germany in Africa from the early Fifties to the current day. the writer demanding situations the normal concept that the GDR's position in Africa is just that of a proxy for the USSR. as a substitute, as he convincingly argues, East German international coverage commonly and in Africa specifically, may be understood as a method either in pursuit of association with the USSR and looking for overseas attractiveness and legitimacy.
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Radio and/or tv broadcasting agreements have been concluded among the GDR and Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Guinea-Bissau, Libya, the Congo PR, Mozambique, Angola, Ethiopia and Zambia. newshounds have been expert in classes and seminars organised via East German experts in Africa, or undertook education on the popular Internationales Institut fur Journalistik, Werner Lamberz, close to East Berlin. within the 16 years 90 The international coverage of the GDR in Africa as much as 1979, 432 reporters from 39 Asian and African states have been reportedly proficient on the Institute. thirteen This workout of what one Western resource has known as 'applied Proto-Leninism', to exert expanding East German and Soviet bloc impression via celebration contacts and organisational ties, used to be for the GDR essentially an extension and continuation of regulations started within the pre-recognition interval. 14 yet with overseas popularity after 1973, and with the improvement of inter-state family members with a large cross-section of African regimes of assorted political and ideological orientations, Honecker's convinced and increasing Afrikapolitik bore more and more much less resemblance to Ulbricht's previous extra tentative strength projection at the African continent. The elevated East German function in Africa Honecker may well boast on the ninth SED Congress in 1976 that the GDR maintained diplomatic relatives with 121 states. 15 by way of December 1979 in Africa simply Malawi, Swaziland, South Africa, RhodesiaZimbabwe, and the Ivory Coast had no longer verified diplomatic relatives with the GDR (see desk 3). Zaire and Morocco had previous briefly deserted diplomatic relatives as a result of the Shaba crises (discussed in bankruptcy four) and the West (Spanish) Sahara challenge respectively. East German aid for nationwide liberation pursuits was once more suitable by means of the outlet of places of work of quasi-diplomatic prestige for ZAPU, SWAPO and the ANC in East Berlin in 1978. sixteen No different East ecu nation at the moment formally accommodated all 3 guerrilla teams of their capital. 17 The GDR had cooperated with every one of those events for numerous years. Joshua Nkomo, Sam Nujoma and Oliver Tambo, the respective heads of ZAPU, SWAPO and the ANC, figured prominently within the ranks of major African dignitaries and heads of nation who visited the GDR among 1973 and 1979. sooner than independence the MPLA and FRELIMO leaders had additionally travelled to East Berlin (see desk 4). very important East German delegations have been found in Africa extra often from December 1976 onwards following the independence of the previous Portuguese colonies and inner upheavals in Ethiopia. formerly, high-ranking East German occasion officers visited north Africa. until eventually his dying in March 1978, Werner Lamberz, the SED Secretary for Agitation and Politburo member, had proven himself as an crucial troubleshooter sent to Africa on Table four. Visits by means of top African officers to the GDR, 1973-May 1989 1973 Nujoma (SWAPO) Tambo(ANC) Nkomo(ZAPU) Mugabe (Zimbabwe) Machel (Mozambique) Chissano (Mozambique) Pinto da Costa (Sao Tome and Principe) Neto (Angola) Dos Santos (Angola) Pereira (President of Cape Verde Islands) Luiz Cabral (Guinea-Bissau) travel£ (Guinea) Ghaddafi (Libya) Mengistu (Ethiopia) Yhombi-Opango (Congo PR) Sassou-Nguesso (Congo PR) Kaunda (Zambia) leader Jonathan (Lesotho) 1974 1975 1976 xfl 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 Nov.