Many battles were to be fought in Africa where the struggle for independence and post-independence politics were being sucked into the ideological war. By DANIEL K. KALINAKIMore by this AuthorFew outsiders can be said to have played a more important role in fighting colonialism and apartheid in Africa than Fidel Castro. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating,” Castro would say, as he hitched Cuba’s wagon to the Soviet Union. On the other side of the contest stood FNLA and UNITA with support from Zaire, South Africa and the Central Intelligence Agency. And it was just in time, for the Soviet Union came tumbling down only a few months later, but by which time the wheels of history had already turned against apartheid South Africa.

Source: Daily Nation November 27, 2016 00:09 UTC