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"This book will interest students and specialists of (African) decolonisation and the global Cold War. It foregrounds the agency of East and Central African activists in transnational networks in which they have not previously featured, combining multi-archival global history approaches with microhistory methods to revise heroic narratives of anticolonial nationalism"--
List of contents
Introduction; 1 Regional learning: Makerere, Mau Mau and the anti-Federation campaign; 2 Information sources: Socialist internationalism and the limits of London and Delhi; 3 Before Accra: Holding independent states accountable, from Cairo to Mwanza; 4 Publicity and violence in the shadow of Algeria: Old methods, new settings and the distant UN; 5. Conspiracy in the Congo: Youth, students and the Cold War challenge; 6. Radio waves: Statehood, fundraising and the fate of an anticolonial culture.
About the author
Ismay Milford is a researcher at Leipzig University.
Summary
Through the perspective of activists from East and Central Africa, Milford presents a history of global decolonisation and anticolonialism in the 1950s and 1960s. Drawing on multi-archival research, she foregrounds the role of these activists in transnational networks and the limits of the solidarity projects in which they participated.
