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6 - Radio Waves

Statehood, Fundraising and the Fate of an Anticolonial Culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2023

Ismay Milford
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Universität Leipzig
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In 1962, Sikota Wina wrote a report on the United National Independence Party (UNIP) International Publicity Bureau, which had just opened an office in Dar es Salaam, capital of newly independent Tanganyika and liberation hub in the making. Chapter 6 asks how the anticolonial culture of this cohort fell away over the course of the staggered independence dates of Tanganyika, Uganda, Malawi and Zambia. Accra, having just begun to host liberation movements from around 1960, appeared unable to provide a platform for activists after Munu Sipalo’s stint on the editorial board of Voice of Africa. Cairo lost much of the appeal it held in John Kale’s heyday, as conflict over the legitimacy of political parties paralleled a crisis in office resources. Lobbying groups on the Western European Left grew irrelevant in a new funding landscape that came with the timetabling of statehood, while PAFMECA soon dissolved. The acceleration of independence negotiations in the region was ambivalent: this chapter closes by arriving in Dar es Salaam by way of radio broadcasting and technical training for Zambian secretaries – whose experience was not only one of anticolonial regional solidarity.

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African Activists in a Decolonising World
The Making of an Anticolonial Culture, 1952–1966
, pp. 208 - 244
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • Radio Waves
  • Ismay Milford, Universität Leipzig
  • Book: African Activists in a Decolonising World
  • Online publication: 02 March 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009277020.007
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  • Radio Waves
  • Ismay Milford, Universität Leipzig
  • Book: African Activists in a Decolonising World
  • Online publication: 02 March 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009277020.007
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  • Radio Waves
  • Ismay Milford, Universität Leipzig
  • Book: African Activists in a Decolonising World
  • Online publication: 02 March 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009277020.007
Available formats
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