Introduction
Regional learning: Makerere, Mau Mau and the anti-Federation campaign
Information sources: Socialist internationalism and the limits of London and Delhi
Before Accra: Holding independent states accountable, from Cairo to Mwanza
Publicity and violence in the shadow of Algeria: Old methods, new settings and the distant UN
Conspiracy in the Congo: Youth, students and the Cold War challenge
Radio waves: Statehood, fundraising and the fate of an anticolonial culture
Conclusion.