Table of Contents

Part 1 The Rise of the State Department's African Policy Chapter 2 African Foreign Policy Before the Kissinger Years: The G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams Era 1961-1966 Chapter 3 G. Mennen "Soapy" Williams and the American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa: Rethinking the Origins of Multiculturalism in U.S. Foreign Policy Part 4 Background: Secretary of State Kissinger and African Policy Chapter 5 Kissinger's African Policy Chapter 6 U.S. African Policy Under Henry Kissinger Chapter 7 A Critic of the Kissinger's Study of Southern Africa Chapter 8 Documents: Statements, Speeches, and Interviews Chapter 9 The Role of African Nation-states in Kissinger's Concept of International Politics

About the Author

Hanes Walton, Jr., is professor of political science and secretary to the Faculty in the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan. Robert Louis Stevenson is Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts and English at Savannah State University. The Rev. James Bernard Rosser, Sr., is an Episcopal Priest in Atlanta, Georgia.