Ismay Milford

African Activists in a Decolonising World

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Produktbeschreibung

"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"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781009276993
• ISBN-10: 1009276999
• Artikelnr.: 66115352

Autorenporträt

Ismay Milford is a researcher at Leipzig University.

Inhaltsangabe

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.