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Beyond Federation: Ideas and Practices of East African Regionalism in a National and Global Age, 1950-1975

Beyond Federation: Ideas and Practices of East African Regionalism in a National and Global Age, 1950-1975

Hardcover

Series: Africa in Global History, Book 12

African HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 3111619478
ISBN13: 9783111619477
Publisher: de Gruyter Oldenbourg
Published: Sep 9 2025
Pages: 250
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

In the period of mid-twentieth-century decolonization, when nationalism and globalism were hotly contested, East Africans nurtured regionalism in their intellectual and creative work. This book looks beyond political projects of federation to recover ideas and practices of regionalism, their remarkable longevity and their significance for understanding possibilities of radical change. In doing so, it tells a different story about the fate of the category of East Africa, building on a body of scholarship about the imagined political communities of decolonizing Africa, and rejecting narratives that explain the failure of regional integration as the immediate consequence of postcolonial authoritarianism or global economic crisis.

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