Alex White is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge, where his work focuses on anti-colonial radio broadcasting and its influence in British East Africa. He uses government records, broadcasting archives and memoirs to reconstruct the complex role of radio in promoting radical politics and unsettling the colonial state.
He is the author of several academic articles, including 'Broadcasting Brotherhood? Interactive Diplomacy and Postcolonial Identity in Kol Yisrael’s African Services, 1960-1966' (2022) and 'Who Will Overthrow Imperialism with Me? Culture and Interactivity in Anti-Colonial Radio for Africans, 1956-1964' (2020). He also works as a freelance writer, and his articles about politics and culture have appeared in New Lines, World Politics Review, Africa is a Country and +972 Magazine.
Experience
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–presentPhD Candidate in History, University of Cambridge
Education
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2019University of Cambridge, MPhil in World History
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2018University of Edinburgh, MA (Hons) in History
Publications
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2024'The caged bird sings of freedom: Maya Angelou’s anti-colonial journalism in the United Arab Republic and Ghana, 1961–1965', Journal of Global History
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2022'Broadcasting Brotherhood? Interactive Diplomacy and Postcolonial Identity in Kol Yisrael’s African Services, 1960-1966', International History Review
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2020'Who Will Overthrow Imperialism with Me? Culture and Interactivity in Anti-Colonial Radio for Africans, 1956-1964', Question: Essays and Art from the Humanities
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