This excellent edited volume sheds light on many understudied aspects of the moorings and (dis)entanglements between Africa and East Germany during the Cold War. Topics that are dealt with range from women’s accounts to friendship brigades, from socialist international organizations to the fate of individual Mozambicans in the GDR and beyond, and from trade unions to schools. The tome draws on sources that include photographs, many new and relevant archival finds, as well as oral history and newly unearthed manuscripts. The volume’s main weakness results from not critiquing liberal paradigms when assessing the record of African Marxist states or the GDR record in terms of influencing people’s lives and well-being, and the negative effects of racism and neocolonialism in the second half of the twentieth century in Africa and Eastern Europe.