George Roberts is a historian of twentieth-century Eastern Africa, especially Tanzania and Comoros. He is interested in the politics of decolonisation, particularly African socialism, anticolonial liberation struggles, and the region’s role in global Cold War. His first book, Revolutionary State-Making in Dar es Salaam, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2021. It is available open access. He is presently working on East African experiences of the oil crises and commodity shocks of the 1970s. He can be reached at X/Twitter.