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Beyond Federation

Ideas and Practices of East African Regionalism in a National and Global Age, 1950–1975
  • Emma Hunter , Daniel Branch , Ismay Milford and Gerard McCann
  • Funded by: Freie Universität Berlin
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2025
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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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Emma Hunter, University of Edinburgh, UK; Daniel Branch, University of Warwick, UK; Ismay Milford, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany; Gerard McCann, University of York, UK.

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August 22, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9783111620060
Hardcover published on:
August 22, 2025
Hardcover ISBN:
9783111619477
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320
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