Adom Getachew. Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019. 271 pp. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Paper. ISBN: 9780691202341.

After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination is a seminal work that contributes to the field of postcolonial studies and opens new vistas in political theory.Getachew approaches this study with a historical method that draws on the work of several key figures whose intellectual contributions helped to frame twentieth-century debates surrounding the aspirations, strategies, limits, and disillusionment of anticolonial movements.Getachew's method also draws on international legal studies and international political economy to provide a very rich and textured account of the subject.Getachew's account of "the rise and fall of self-determination" opens "at midnight on March 6, 1957" as Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah announces the independence of the former British colony of the Gold Coast, now to be known as Ghana.Getachew notes Nkrumah's remarks on that occasion placed the "revolutionary implications" of Ghanaian independence in the larger global context of postcolonial independence with a specific focus on the importance of African unity.Nkrumah remains one of the key figures throughout as Getachew charts his theory and practice as a Pan-Africanist leader, advocate for African federation, and then critic of neocolonialism.Other key figures covered are Nnamdi