Henry Kissinger vs Jamaica: In The Words of Michael Manley

In 1975, Cuba sent troops to Angola to help them fight against an invasion by apartheid South Africa. Henry Kissinger, the US Secretary of State was angry at this, so he set out to get countries to denounce Cuba’s actions. Jamaica was one of these countries. So, in December 1975, Kissinger met with prime minister Michael Manley on the issue. On this episode, we hear from Manley, himself, how this conversation went and the events that occured in its aftermath - events, that forever changed Jamaica.

Michael Manley’s account is taken from, Jamaica: A Struggle In The Periphery by Michael Manley. pg 111 to 117

Additional Knowledge

BOOKS

• Between Self-Determination and Dependency: Jamaica's Foreign Relations 1972-1989 by Holger Henke

• Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959–1976 by Piero Gleijeses

• Cuba and Angola: The War For Freedom by Harry Villegas

• Havana, Washington, Pretoria and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976–1991 by Piero Gleijeses

• Henry Kissinger and the American Century by Jeremi Suri

• How Europe Underdeveloped Africa by Walter Rodney

• Jamaica: Struggle in the Periphery by Michael Manley

• Michael Manley: The Biography by Godfrey Smith

• Small Garden, Bitter Weed: Struggle and Change in Jamaica by George Beckford and Michael Witter

• The Good Die Young: The Verdict on Henry Kissinger edited by Bhaskar Sunkara, Rene Rojas and Jonah Walter

• The Trial Of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens

• White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa by Susan Williams

• Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination by Adom Getachew

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

• Dependent Development and Foreign Policy: The Case of Jamaica by William Jesse Biddle and John D. Stephens

• Foreign Policy and Dependency: The Case of Jamaica, 1972-89 by Holger Henke

ARTICLES

• Al Jazeera: Berlin 1884: Remembering the conference that divided Africa

• Boston Review: When Jamaica Led the Postcolonial Fight Against Exploitation

• Africa Is A Country: Henry Kissinger’s Angola

• Africa Is A Country: Kissinger’s Secret War in Angola

• Africa Is A Country: Henry Kissinger’s South Africa

DOCUMENTARIES

• Blood and Fire: Jamaica’s Political History aired by BBC and hosted by Dr. Robert Beckford

• The Trials of Henry Kissinger directed by Eugene Jarecki