The war in East and Central Africa was one of the longest running of the Great W…

The Ottoman and European colonial contexts are the necessary background for unde…

The people of Southern Africa experienced the First World War as a continuation …

In 1914, the Union of South Africa was four years old; its military only two. Br…

This article examines the deployment of West African soldiers for military servi…

Between 1914 and 1918, between 150,000 and 200,000 Africans traveled to Europe t…

The South African government’s decision to actively support Britain in the war a…

This article examines bereavement and mourning practices among African families …

All belligerent colonial powers enlisted Africans for fighting, and as carriers …

This article provides an assessment of how society and the state in post-aparthe…

This article analyzes the deployment of about half a million African soldiers in…

When the First World War came to Africa, European colonial rule was scarcely est…

In 1914, Allied leaders plunged Africans into a conflict that was not their own.…

Commemoration in the form of ceremonies and monuments was for the most part alie…

South Africa’s First World War cult of commemoration has long centred around the…

The dominions of Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Zealand, and South Africa …

This article provides a succinct overview of the impact of the war on the econom…

The mobile nature of the war in Africa meant supplying the forces with food was …

In South Africa the period between 1914 and 1918 was one of intense political an…

This article outlines the historiographical development from Africa’s treatment …

The First World War in Africa has been considered a sideshow compared to the cat…

Policymakers in the British Dominions of Australia, Canada, Newfoundland, New Ze…

This article provides the first continent-wide overview of the catastrophic, wor…

Memoirs, songs, poems and fiction dealing with the great war in Africa began to …

For the majority of Africans this war was a European war. However, it was also a…

This article provides a brief overview of the contribution of African economies …

This article argues that the shifts in the colonial administration after World W…

The economic development of African territories in the years following World War…

This article focuses on the Africans who fought in the First World War and the r…

Africa did not feature prominently in pre-war military planning. Once the Allies…

The Union of South Africa was formed ten years after the internecine Second Angl…

During the First World War Africans served as combatants, porters, and labourers…

A comparatively small number of German residents were interned as “enemy subject…

Unlike the metropole, none of the colonial powers in Africa operated a centrally…

Africans across the continent resisted colonial demands and took up arms against…

Although many scientific innovations and technologies came to the continent with…

South Africa’s contribution to the East Africa campaign extended beyond 1916, th…

The South African invasion of German South West Africa (GSWA) in September 1914 …

Like other dominions of the British Empire, the Union of South Africa’s particip…

The First World War led to a renewed imperialist scramble for territory in Afric…

This article provides a brief overview of the financial contribution of the Afri…

Human resources in Africa were exploited during the First World War for imperial…

Askari is a word that means “soldier” or “police” in Kiswahili, Arabic, Turkish…

Invented in France in 1860, barbed wire was further developed in the United Stat…

Louis Botha, Boer General and Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, serve…

The Carrier Corps were a conscripted labour force used by all belligerent sides …

World War I was not simply a conflict among European states but a global war of …

Before the war, Ethiopia had many diplomatic connections with European states an…

The article discusses the Force Publique, the colonial troops of the Belgian Con…

Husen was a child soldier in the “Schutztruppe” of German East Africa. He migrat…

The King’s African Rifles (KAR) were the British colonial military within East A…

The German light cruiser Königsberg made its name at the Battle of Zanzibar. Aft…

During World War One, Hubert Lyautey was the French Resident-General in Morocco …

The two Moroccan crises represent the product of “rapacious joint imperialism.” …

The Belgian Force Publique occupied Ruanda and Urundi in 1916 after taking contr…

Heinrich Schnee was the governor of German East Africa between 1912 and 1919. Du…

Between 1891 and 1894 colonial forces, named “Schutztruppe”, were established in…

Jan Smuts was a South African lawyer and statesman who ultimately became deputy …

From 1916 to 1918 the “Tirailleurs Somalis” were the only military unit from the…

The Battle of Tanga was the first major military engagement in East Africa and a…

The tirailleurs sénégalais (Senegalese riflemen) figured prominently among the m…

This article examines the concept of war poetry and considers the range of poeti…

Wireless telegraphy became an integral part of warfare on the ground, in the air…

Alliances were an important feature of the international system on the eve of Wo…

In the modern era, new forms of mourning and meaning-making for fallen soldiers …

Innovative historical scholarship played an important role in the shaping of mem…

The commemorative period between 2014 and 2018 was marked globally by numerous e…

The First World War saw the colonial empires of France and Britain mobilised to …

While there were no major wars between European great powers in the decades prec…

The First World War ushered in an unprecedented wave of commemorations. Mass dea…

The article discusses the role of the media in the complex international process…

The end of fighting in 1918 raised hopes for swift and equitable military demobi…

The extra-European theatres of World War I have received far less scholarly atte…

This article focuses on the extent to which imperialism contributed to the outbr…

By examining the origins, pathways, demographic impact and consequences for the …

The Treaty of Versailles was signed on 28 June 1919, the same day on which the L…

Many issues surrounding the conduct of war in the years 1914-1918 were imperviou…

This article examines the use by Great Britain and France of colonial subjects f…

The First World War caused unprecedented disruption to societies across the glob…

From the cradle to the grave, popular religion formed a necessary and vital, if …

Imperialism shaped almost every facet of international politics from 1898 to 191…

It may surprise us to learn that some sectors of the European public were in fav…