Beyond Federation

Ideas and Practices of East African Regionalism in a National and Global Age, 1950–1975

Emma Hunter, Daniel Branch, Ismay Milford, Gerard McCann

• Publisher: De Gruyter Oldenbourg
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9783111620015
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Modern History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 East African Pasts, Presents and Futures in Transition and its Network
• Chapter 2 East African Circuits of News and Current Affairs in Print
• Chapter 3 Universities, East African Scholarly Networks and Knowledge Production
• Chapter 4 The African Labour College and East African Trade Unionism
• Chapter 5 The Swahili Language between Nation and Region
• Chapter 6 Infrastructures of Book Publishing in East Africa
• Conclusion: Another Region, World, and Nation
• Index