Not an obvious hero
In a new film, former UN-Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld is portrayed as a defender of a fledgling postcolonial state. But his role in the Congo Crisis is more complicated.
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Dino Knudsen is a transnational historian and an assistant professor of global politics at Malmö University, currently researching the establishment of Afro-Scandinavian intellectual networks in the early Cold War.
In a new film, former UN-Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld is portrayed as a defender of a fledgling postcolonial state. But his role in the Congo Crisis is more complicated.