The Politics of Regionalism and Federation in East Africa, 1958–1964
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8957396 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Vaughan (0000-0002-2126-4537, Liverpool John Moores University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 519-540 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x18000407 |
| OpenAlex | W2898980980 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 24 |
Recent scholarship discussing the ‘federal moment’ in world history after 1945 has re-examined alternatives to the nation-state in the years of decolonization, arguing against any inevitable transition from empire to nation. This article focuses on the case of East Africa, where federation seemed an attractive and likely prospect by 1963, yet never came to pass. Here, the politics of federation should be understood as a constitutive part of the contested nation-state-making process, rather than a viable alternative to it. For the leaders who initiated the politics of federation in the 1960s, regional unity promised the further centralization of power and a means of defeating ‘tribalist’ opposition. For their opponents, federation was seized on as a means of promoting the autonomy of provinces or kingdoms within a larger federal unit. Ultimately, regionalist aspiration was inseparable from national politics, and negotiations among the leaders of East African states demanded the definition of national interests which divided states rather than united them. Such conclusions suggest that historians of the federal moment might more productively focus on the functions of federalist discourse in the making of nation-states rather than debating the viability of federalist projects
Democracy · Federalist · National interest · Negotiation · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Regionalism (politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · State (computer science · Territorial integrity · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Law · Public Administration · South African History and Culture
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Thinking East African
The Capital of Race Capitals
Multilateralism, Developmental Regionalism, and the African Development Bank
Dialogues between Past and Present in Intellectual Histories of Mid-Twentieth-Century Africa
African regionalism, economic nationalism and the contested politics of social purpose
Settler Worldmaking
Molinaco, the Comorian Diaspora, and Decolonisation in East Africa's Indian Ocean
Where was the Afro in Afro-Asian Solidarity? Africa’s ‘Bandung Moment’ in 1950s Asia
Possibility and Peril
Another World? East Africa, Decolonisation, and the Global History of the Mid-Twentieth Century
The Cosmopolitan Historiography of Twentieth-Century Federalism
Federation, Partnership, and the Chronologies of Space in 1950s East and Central Africa
How African Decolonization Challenged the Notion of Cold War Polarity
Cartography and the Political Imagination
The Politics and Economics of Decolonization in Africa
Ordering Independence
Conflict and Confrontation in South East Asia, 1961–1965
War of Words, War of Stones
Anti-Imperial Metropolis
Decolonisation and the “Federal Moment”
Tanzania versus East Africa
Buganda in Modern History
Federation in East Africa
East African Federation
Federal Utopias and the Realities of Imperial Power
Economic Integration
Pan-Africanism and East African Integration
Decolonization in Africa
Yours in Struggle for Majimbo’. Nationalism and the Party Politics of Decolonization in Kenya, 1955-64
Citizenship between Empire and Nation
Pan-Africanism and East African Integration
Buganda in Modern History
| Unique citing works | 14 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |