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Wednesday, 14 November 2018 - 5.15pm
Location: 
Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Finley Library

Lecture summary: This paper explores the ways in which cosmopolitan and educated elites in East Africa imagined and debated regional integration, navigating the tensions between national sovereignty and independent statehood and wider processes of regional political and economic integration. The first East African Community has often been portrayed as a top-down, technocratic project with little purchase in the wider public sphere. Established following the failure of more ambitious plans for a regional federation, it had collapsed in acrimony by the late 1970s. Drawing on East African press, the paper asks: Was regional unity only ever attractive to political elites or was it a powerful idea amongst a wider section of ‘civil society’? Why did this vision of the future gain such apparent traction in the early 1960s, and what remained of such enthusiasm by the 1970s?

Dr Emma Hunter is Senior Lecturer in African History at the University of Edinburgh.

 

Lecture: 17:15 hrs to 18:30 hrs

 

This session is part of the Legal Histories beyond the State work-in-progress seminar series.

 

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