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During the 1950s, as leaders across the African continent organised campaigns for political independence from European colonial powers, the international spiritual movement Moral Re-Armament (MRA) invited African trade unionists and politicians to its headquarters – a renovated hotel building in Caux, Switzerland. In light of recent recognition of MRA's global reach and Cold War entanglements, this article uses the account of a visit to Caux by Ugandan student Abu Mayanja to shift our gaze towards the cultural. MRA's attempt to curate a transformational experience within Mountain House elaborates the role of religious internationalism in the decolonising Cold War world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es Salaam: African liberation and the global Cold War, 1961-1974: George Roberts, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), xvi + 288 pp In I Revolutionary State-Making i , Dar es Salaam serves as a window onto the Cold War world. I Revolutionary State-Making i is an important book, both for locating the global Cold War in the streets and secrets of post-independence capitals, and for demonstrating the extent to which the history of state-making - and state control - is inescapably international. [Extracted from the article]