In the early 1950s, the history of nationalism in Lesotho took a decisive turn when Ntsu Mokhehle founded the Basutoland African Congress (1952), later renamed Basutoland Congress Party. Mokhehle himslef took advantage of the networks he created internationally - for instance in South Africa, at Bandung and in Ghana - to promote the struggle for the Independence of Basutoland. As a result, BCP members widened their knowledge of Africa and the rest of the world. The BCP also teamed up with other progressive movements in South Africa, Swaziland and Botswana, with a similar radical vision of Pan-Africanism and nationalism. A particular symbiosis was developed with the Pan-Africanist Congress and it allowed the BCP to further extend its voice in Africa and beyond. This paper, based on research in Lesotho, South Africa, Swaziland, Uk and Ghana, shows how the independence struggle in Lesotho developed along the lines of networks built by the BCP around transnational hubs such as Cairo, Accra and Dar es Salaaam. Lesotho’s local struggle for independence must therefore be included in a wider context of continental and global connections which brought a crucial influence on Basotho visions of Pan-Africanism and nationalism.