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(2022) Another World? East Africa, Decolonisation, and the Global History of the Mid-Twentieth Century. Journal of African History. pp. 394-410. ISSN: 1469-5138  \n[https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853721000566](https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853721000566)  \nReuse  \nThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence. This licence allows you to distribute, remix, tweak, and build upon the work, even commercially, as long as you credit the authors for the original work. More information and the full terms of the licence here: [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/)  \nTakedown  \nIf you consider content in White Rose Research Online to be in breach of UK law, please notify us by  \nemailing [eprints@whiterose.ac.uk](eprints@whiterose.ac.uk) including the URL of the record and the reason for the withdrawal request.  \nThe Journal of African History (2021), 1–17 doi:10.1017/S0021853721000566  \nAnother World? East Africa, Decolonisation, and the Global History of the Mid-Twentieth Century  \nIsmay Milford , Gerard McCann, Emma Hunter and Daniel Branch  \nThe University of Edinburgh, University of York, The University of Edinburgh and University of Warwick  \nAbstract  \nThis article proposes that there is a gap in our current understanding of the globalising and deglobalising dynamics of mid-twentieth-century East Africa, one that might be addressed by consolidating and taking forward recent developments in the historiography of decolonisation. Recent work by international historians has recovered the connected world of the 1940s to 1960s: the era of new postcolonial states, the‘Bandung moment’, pan-African cooperation, and the early Cold War. Yet East Africa is less prominent in these histories than we might expect, despite the vibrancy of current work on this period in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania. Bringing these two fields into dialogue, through an explicitly regional East African framework and with a particular focus on individual lives, expands our understanding not only of the ‘globalisation of decolonisation’ but also of the deglobalising dynamics ofthe following decades that are frequently reduced to a history of global economic crisis.  \nKeywords: Kenya; Uganda; Tanzania; East Africa; biography; decolonisation; global; historiography  \nWritten from a world that appears to be deglobalising, this article revisits a period in which global connections proved to be both powerful and fragile. Our focus is the mid-twentieth century, the period from roughly the 1940s to the 1970s, viewed from East Africa. It was a time, the then-Makerere student Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o writes, when ‘the impossible seemed possible’.1 The era of decolonisation opened up new forms of political community and new terms of engagement with the wider world; it was not merely a new stage in a history of external dominance indistinct from the colonialism that preceded it or the marginalisation that followed in the age of global markets and capital.2  \nA growing body of work by international historians recovers the connected world(s) of the first part of this period, from the 1940s to the early 1960s, which saw the birth of new postcolonial states, the ‘Bandung moment’, pan-African cooperation, and the early Cold War. Exciting new scholarship traces the networks of solidarities, built through personal connections as well as through print, which bonded individuals, communities, and organisations across oceans and continents.3 As","cbCain3kwu964plF","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCain3kwu964plF","pdf",413556,18,"English","# Abstract\n# Proposed gap in mid-twentieth-century East Africa historiography\n# Connected world of the 1940s–1960s and global linkages\n# East Africa’s place in global decolonisation histories\n# Globalising effects and deglobalising dynamics after decolonisation","[{\"question\":\"What gap does the article aim to address in existing historiography?\",\"answer\":\"It targets an under-explored gap in understanding how mid-twentieth-century East Africa experienced globalising and deglobalising dynamics within decolonisation histories.\"},{\"question\":\"Which broader international developments does the article connect to East Africa?\",\"answer\":\"It links East Africa to the connected world of the 1940s–1960s, including the Bandung moment, pan-African cooperation, and early Cold War dynamics.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the article propose expanding understanding of globalisation after decolonisation?\",\"answer\":\"By bringing globalising decolonisation scholarship into dialogue with an explicitly regional East African framework and a focus on individual lives, the article highlights both globalisation effects and later deglobalising dynamics.\"}]","Another World? 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