Indeed, after reading this book, one could get the impression that every American or European living and working in Africa at this time was an intelligence operative with a shadowy agenda.

Who Killed Hammarskjöld? The UN, the Cold War, and White Supremacy in Africa, London: Hurst, 2011. ISBN 978-1-84904-158-4 Because Dr Williams was very ill with Covid on this date, Professor James Thomas at UCL Institute of Educationkindly read it out on her behalf. Interview on Newsday - BBC Africa, BBC World Service - about Spies in the Congo.On BBC World Service. Research Summary and Profile Research interests: Civil Rights, Colonies & Colonization, emigration & immigration, Communications, Communities, Classes, Races, Contemporary History, Cultural memory, Gender studies, Globalization & Development, Human rights, International Relations, Metropolitan history, Modern History , Political Institutions, Politics Regions: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Europe, North America, South America, United Kingdom Summary of research interests and expertise:Williams' book focuses in particular on the last few years of the 1950s and first half of the 1960s, examining the attempts of the CIA to manipulate the politics and frustrate the liberation movements in Ghana and Congo. Williams' narrative--some of it new primarily in the level of detail and layers of evidence she brings to the discussion--is an indictment of U.S. policy, but also captures the spirit of decolonization and the liberation movements associated with it. She is frequently invited to act as a historical advisor to the media (television, radio and print). She also serves as historical consultant to the production of films (see below) and has been advisor to the work of independent and official inquiries (for example see below). Project summary relevant to Fellowship:

When The NewRightcame out, he got a couple things wrong about my life story such as the allegation that I was an incurable drunk in the late 1990s, when I haven’t had a sip of booze since April of 1982. To my knowledge, there was no correction for this, nor any apology. There was also a passage in the book about how, as a, you know, Jew, he only feels safe in New York City. Dr Williams has continued, since the publication of Who Killed Hammarskjöld?, to serve as a historical advisor on a variety of fronts relating to its themes. The book argues the case for a new inquiry into the plane crash that killed UN SG Dag Hammarskjold. It triggered led in 2012 to the independent Hammarskjöld Commission, chaired by Sir Steven Sedley, to which Dr Williams provided historical expertise. On the recommendation of the Commission’s report in 2013, in December 2014 a Resolution was adopted unanimously by the UN General Assembly, authorising the Secretary General to appoint a UN Panel of Experts to examine the evidence; the Head of the Panel was Chande Othman, Chief Justice of Tanzania. In June 2015 Justice Othman submitted his report to UN SG Ban Ki Moon, who stated that ‘further inquiry or investigation would be necessary to finally establish the facts’. Following the adoption of a further Resolution by the UNGA in December 2016, Justice Othman was selected in 2017 by Secretary General António Guterres as Eminent Person with the mandate to review potential new information, assess its probative value, and determine the scope that any further investigation should take. The Judge has submitted threefurther reports to the SG; his report of 2022can be found here: http://www.hammarskjoldinquiry.info/pdf/ham_327_Eminent_Persons_report_250822.pdf. On 30 December 2022, Sweden -- together with 140 co-sponsor nations -- led the UN General Assembly to adopt without a vote a resolution that ensured the continuation of the inquiry under the leadership of JudgeOthman. Hurst and Co in the UK; Jacana in South Africa; Columbia University Press in the USA (later Oxford University Press in the USA). She writes extensively in White Malice of the West’s alleged culpability in the torture and murder of Patrice Lumumba, independent Congo’s first prime minister. Lumumba had hoped that the US, a nation he admired, would be a natural ally to the Congo, given the country’s triumph over colonialism and its achievement in self-determination.

Williams does a nice line in intrigue. There is a John le Carré quality to many of the episodes [in White Malice]. CIA operatives turn up as journalists, interpreters, businessmen and private secretaries, sometimes bearing suitcases of cash. … [An] entertaining narrative.’ — Financial Times

of the book focuses on two countries on a vast continent with, what, 40+ states? During an 8-year period? Come on. What a joy to open this book and find that whatever the author’s White Pill is supposed to be, it somehow involves Ayn Rand (AR). It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand (1971, by Jerome Tuccille) was the name of an actual book that came out when I was in my teens and going through my own brief Objectivist period. The book is a funny saga about the author’s time as a militant libertarian. I’m sure it meant a lot to people who came of age in the late 1960s and were getting tired of Randianism by 1971, but you may find it dreary and overly granular today.

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Two years after Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first prime minister and president, was overthrown in a coup in 1966, he wrote in his account of that period: “Examples of CIA activity in Africa . . . would provide material for a book of their own.” In White Malice, Susan Williams, a University of London lecturer and Africa expert, has taken him at his word. Presentation to MSc students for the Department of Chemistry andChemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. A large bespectacled lady, usually with cigarette ash on her ample bosom,” Williams says her “frumpy” appearance hid a malicious force. Years later, Park explained her modus operandi to a television documentary: “You set people discreetly against one another . . . They destroy each other, we don’t destroy them.” Described as the classic statement on the postcolonial condition, this is a compelling read and is supported by a wealth of detail. Nkrumah believed that neocolonialism is “the worst form of imperialism”, on the grounds that those who practise it exercise “power without responsibility and for those who suffer from it, it means exploitation without redress”.

There was also outright racism, the malice of the title. Then vice-president Richard Nixon is quoted as saying: “Some of the peoples of Africa have been out of the trees only for about 50 years . . . We must recognise, although we cannot say it publicly, that we need the strong men of Africa on our side.” The White offender category would be lower if they did not label Hispanics as White, the "White on... New Spiritualities of Survival among Refugees in Northern Nigeria: Interview with Dr Matthew Michael Paper presented at ‘Sowing the Whirlwind’: Nuclear Politics and the Historical Record, a conference held by ICWS/SAS Spies in the Congo: The Race for the Ore that Built the Atomic Bomb (UK); Spies in the Congo: America's Atomic Mission in World War II (USA)The People’s King: The True Story of the Abdication, Allen Lane, 2003. ISBN 978-0-71399-573-2 – on the abdication of Edward VIII The U.S. went to some lengths to conceal this, maintaining that their uranium came from Canada and, in the Second World War, labelling barrels of uranium being exported from Congo as cobalt. It is plausible, Williams argues, that this practice of talking about cobalt as code for uranium continued after the war, which reveals discussions in the CIA and U.S. government about securing continuing access to the uranium mine in Congo’s Katanga province in the face of Congolese independence. Katanga’s secession from Congo after the election of Lumumba in 1960 is unlikely to have been a coincidence. Neocolonialism