Table 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.

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

About the Author

Ismay Milford is a researcher at Leipzig University.