title: Imperialisms in the Olympics of the Colonization in the Postcolonization: Africa into the International Olympic Committee, 1910–1965
abstract: On 5 April 1945, one month before the German surrenders of 7 and 9 May 1945, AveryBrundage, the American member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) andfuture president of the Olympic Movement (1952), informed the British IOCmember LordAberdare (England) of an issue concerning a third (Afro-Asian) bloc. The rise andsubsequent fall of Nazism during World War II called into question the continuation ofcolonial domination. The progressive liberation of populations oppressed by colonialisman