ABSTRACT
This chapter is interested in expressions of internationalism that emerged in the tensions between the processes of professionalization and Africanization, particularly ideas about the transferability of skills and people. It explores these tensions through two linked cases of journalism courses in East Africa that were transferred from international organizations (the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization and the International Press Institute) to East African institutions (the Kenya Institute for Mass Communication and the School of Journalism at the University of Nairobi). The chapter shifts attention away from Cold War debates about the free press and free flow of information and blurs the boundary between state and non-state when thinking about internationalism. Instead, it focuses on questions of curriculum, asking how conflicts over what was taught and who taught it informed discussions about Cold War funding and the role of government. At stake was less the ideological conflict of the era than the day-to-day relevance of training.
