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

This article examines bereavement and mourning practices among African families …

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

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…

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

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

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…

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

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

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…

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