Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Introduction: The Lives of Cold War Afro-Asianism
- Chapter 2 Here and There: A Story of Women’s Internationalism, 1948-1953
- Chapter 3 Résistantes Against the Colonial Order: Women’s Grassroots Diplomacy During the French War in Vietnam (1945-1954)
- Interlude: Asian-African Solidarity
- Chapter 4 Asian Socialism and the Forgotten Architects of Post-Colonial Freedom
- Chapter 5 Where was the Afro in Afro-Asian Solidarity? Africa’s ‘Bandung Moment’
- Chapter 6 Asia as a Third Way? J.C. Kumarappa and the Problem of Development in Asia
- Interlude: The Dead Will Live Eternally
- Chapter 7 Delhi versus Bandung: Local Anti-imperialists and the Afro- Asian Stage
- Chapter 8 Building Egypt’s Afro-Asian Hub: Infrastructures of Solidarity in 1950s Cairo
- Chapter 9 Soviet “Afro-Asians” in UNESCO: Reorienting World History and Humanism
- Chapter 10 A Forgotten Bandung : The Afro-Asian Students’ Conference and the Call for Decolonisation
- Interlude: Yesterday and Today
- Chapter 11 Dispatches from Havana : The Cold War, Afro-Asian Solidarities, and Culture Wars in Pakistan
- Chapter 12 Microphone Revolution : North Korean Cultural Diplomacy During the Liberation of Southern Africa
- Chapter 13 Eqbal Ahmad: An Affective Reading of Afro-Asianism
- Chapter 14 Passports to the Post-colonial World: Space and Mobility in Francisca Fanggidaej’s Afro-Asian Journeys
- Epilogue: Afro-Asianism Revisited
- About the Authors
- Index
Interlude: Yesterday and Today
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 November 2024
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Introduction: The Lives of Cold War Afro-Asianism
- Chapter 2 Here and There: A Story of Women’s Internationalism, 1948-1953
- Chapter 3 Résistantes Against the Colonial Order: Women’s Grassroots Diplomacy During the French War in Vietnam (1945-1954)
- Interlude: Asian-African Solidarity
- Chapter 4 Asian Socialism and the Forgotten Architects of Post-Colonial Freedom
- Chapter 5 Where was the Afro in Afro-Asian Solidarity? Africa’s ‘Bandung Moment’
- Chapter 6 Asia as a Third Way? J.C. Kumarappa and the Problem of Development in Asia
- Interlude: The Dead Will Live Eternally
- Chapter 7 Delhi versus Bandung: Local Anti-imperialists and the Afro- Asian Stage
- Chapter 8 Building Egypt’s Afro-Asian Hub: Infrastructures of Solidarity in 1950s Cairo
- Chapter 9 Soviet “Afro-Asians” in UNESCO: Reorienting World History and Humanism
- Chapter 10 A Forgotten Bandung : The Afro-Asian Students’ Conference and the Call for Decolonisation
- Interlude: Yesterday and Today
- Chapter 11 Dispatches from Havana : The Cold War, Afro-Asian Solidarities, and Culture Wars in Pakistan
- Chapter 12 Microphone Revolution : North Korean Cultural Diplomacy During the Liberation of Southern Africa
- Chapter 13 Eqbal Ahmad: An Affective Reading of Afro-Asianism
- Chapter 14 Passports to the Post-colonial World: Space and Mobility in Francisca Fanggidaej’s Afro-Asian Journeys
- Epilogue: Afro-Asianism Revisited
- About the Authors
- Index
Summary
yesterday a peasant
a soldier without rank today
he lies prostrate in Beirut
the tale still shakes the earth
with trampling steps the colonialists swallow cities
everything withers and lies scorched
no time to gaze at sweetheart and parents
where will sorrow go
where
the enemy steps in front
yesterday a peasant
a common soldier today
he lies prostrate in Beirut
facing victory in his heart
over the dust of the roads
heavy steps resound
the Arab patriots enter town
their voices echo in the hearts
arise ye Arab patriots
the age of victory is right ahead
yesterday a peasant
a soldier true today
in Beirut he was slain
in Beirut he will live again
Ferdinand Lodewijk RisakottaTransl. Bintang SuradiDedicated to the Second Conference of Afro-Asian Writers Indonesia Sings of Afro-Asia (Jakarta: League of People’s Culture Indonesia, 1962).
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- The Lives of Cold War Afro-Asianism , pp. 241 - 242Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2022