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

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 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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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