African Activists in a Decolonising World

"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"--

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.