Book Launch: ‘Beyond Federation’

The British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIEA), together with the Humanities Research Centre (HRC) University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) invites you to join a book launch of ‘Beyond Federation’: Ideas and Practices of East African Regionalism in a National and Global Age, 1950–1975. This hybrid event is organised in conjunction with the BIEA Regional Research Associates network in person at the University of Dar es Salaam and online.

Speakers: Prof. Emma Hunter (University of Edinburgh) and Prof. Dan Branch (University of Warwick)
Discussant: Dr Zamda Geuza (University of Dar es Salaam)
Venue: Digitizing Room 221, University of Dar es Salaam New Library
To join remotely on Zoom:  https://us06web.zoom.us/j/book_launch
Meeting ID: 871 5118 2211
Passcode: B00Klaunch

Abstract
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.