Marissa J Moorman

Moorman is writing Imperialism on Trial, a book exploring the trial of thirteen British and American mercenaries in Angola in June 1976. Imperialism on Trial locates the Angolan state’s trial alongside the personal trajectories of the lawyers, the mercenaries, and the observers in- and outside the courtroom. It unpacks a congested, geopolitical crossroads where African decolonization, the Cold War, Black internationalism, and the use of mercenaries collide. Moorman details how decolonizing countries tried to rearrange global political relations and how Western intervention thwarted those attempts.