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Discovery of the day · Political Science
Friendship in World Politics: George Padmore, Nancy Cunard, and Dorothy Pizer at the End of Empire
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Key finding
Political Science · Decolonization & Political Theory
Discovery of the day
A close historical study of Trinidadian Pan-African intellectual-activist George Padmore shows that friendship itself operated as a political relation at the heart of twentieth-century decolonization. Drawing on archival sources and the writings and alliances of Padmore alongside two White women allies — Anglo-American writer Nancy Cunard and English stenographer Dorothy Pizer — the article argues that anti-colonial friendship was an aspirational, potentially transformative, yet inherently asymmetrical bond grounded in difference. For a writer and world citizen with a full religious life and a career in public service, this finding matters because it reframes the moral and spiritual practice of cross-cultural solidarity — built on difference, not sameness — as a genuine engine of institutional and political change.
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