African Activists in a Decolonising World - The Making of an Anticolonial Culture, 19521966

A history of global decolonisation and anticolonialism, told through East and Central African activists in the 1950s and 1960s.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Ismay Milford, Ismay (Universitat Leipzig) Milford
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.11.2024
• EAN: 9781009277037
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0927703-7
• No. of pages: 314
• Series: Global and International History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; HISTORY / World, East Africa, Political activism, c 1960 to c 1970, c 1950 to c 1959, Central Africa, c 1960 to c 1969, National liberation & independence, post-colonialism, C 1945 To C 1960, Political activism / Political engagement, Decolonisation and postcolonial studies