Examining revolutionary Dar es Salaam as a key site of Third World attempts to shape a new global order after empire, this book analyses the encounter between the transnational dynamics of the Cold War, African liberation, and the politics of socialism in post-colonial Tanzania. Available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

George Roberts is Lecturer in Modern African History at King's College London, where his research focuses on the international history of decolonisation in Eastern Africa. He was previously a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. He was awarded his his Ph.D. by the University of Warwick in 2016, which was shortlisted for the Audrey Richards Prize for the best doctoral thesis in African Studies by the African Studies Association of the UK in 2018.

Introduction; 1. The making of a Cold War city in Eastern Africa; 2. Revisiting the politics of the Arusha Declaration; 3. Dilemmas of non-alignment: Tanzania and the German Cold War; 4. The assassination of Eduardo Mondlane: Mozambican revolutionaries in Dar es Salaam; 5. Tanzania's '68: Cold War interventions, youth protest, and global anti-imperialism; 6. Decolonising the media: press and politics in revolutionary Dar es Salaam; 7. Mwongozo: the African revolution, reloaded; Conclusion.