Beyond federation : ideas and practices of East African regionalism in a national and global age, 1950-1975 /
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 remarka...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
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Berlin :
De Gruyter Oldenbourg,
2025.
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| Series: | Africa in global history ;
12 |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783111620015 3111620018 9783111620060 3111620069 |