Lena Dallywater is researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography Leipzig, Germany and coordinator of the Leibniz ScienceCampus “Eastern Europe – Global Area” (EEGA). In her dissertation and project-based publications, she has focussed on transregional entanglements, particularly in the area of intellectual engagement and emancipatory activism in the middle of the 20th century. Most recently, she published Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and Africa: new perspectives on the era of decolonization, 1950s to 1990s, Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2023, together with Chris Saunders (University of Cape Town) and Helder Adegar Fonseca (University of Évora).