Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Intr oduction -- Regional learning: Makerere, Mau Mau and the anti-Federatio n campaign -- Information sources: Socialist internationalism and the l imits of London and Delhi -- Before Accra: Holding independent states a ccountable, from Cairo to Mwanza -- Publicity and violence in the shado w of Algeria: Old methods, new settings and the distant UN -- Conspirac y in the Congo: Youth, students and the Cold War challenge -- Radio wav es: Statehood, fundraising and the fate of an anticolonial culture -- C onclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

"This book will interest students and specialists of (African) decol onisation and the global Cold War. It foregrounds the agency of East an d Central African activists in transnational networks in which they hav e not previously featured, combining multi-archival global history appr oaches with microhistory methods to revise heroic narratives of anticol onial nationalism"-- Provided by publisher.