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

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

This article examines bereavement and mourning practices among African families …

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

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…

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

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

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…

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

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

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…

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…

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…

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 German offensive along the northern frontier of German East Africa began wit…

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

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 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…

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…