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Survey Articles (Regional)
Regional
West Africa
By George N. Njung
Regional Thematic Articles
Regional Thematic
African Labour in Europe (Africa)
By Richard Fogarty
Between 1914 and 1918, between 150,000 and 200,000 Africans traveled to Europe t…
Regional Thematic
Bereavement and Mourning (Africa)
By Meshack Owino
This article examines bereavement and mourning practices among African families …
Regional Thematic
Colonial Military Participation in Europe (Africa)
By Christian Koller
This article analyzes the deployment of about half a million African soldiers in…
Regional Thematic
Colonial Warfare and Occupation (Africa)
By Brian Digre
In 1914, Allied leaders plunged Africans into a conflict that was not their own.…
Regional Thematic
Commemoration, Cult of the Fallen (Africa)
By Ruth Ginio, Suryakanthie Chetty
Commemoration in the form of ceremonies and monuments was for the most part alie…
Regional Thematic
Food and Nutrition (Africa)
By Anne Samson, Melvin E. Page
The mobile nature of the war in Africa meant supplying the forces with food was …
Regional Thematic
Influenza Pandemic (Africa)
By Howard Phillips
This article provides the first continent-wide overview of the catastrophic, wor…
Regional Thematic
Organization of War Economies (Africa)
By Karin Pallaver
This article provides a brief overview of the contribution of African economies …
Regional Thematic
Post-war Colonial Administration (Africa)
By Caroline Authaler, Stefanie Michels
This article argues that the shifts in the colonial administration after World W…
Regional Thematic
Post-war Economies (Africa)
By Charlotte Walker-Said
The economic development of African territories in the years following World War…
Regional Thematic
Post-war Societies (Africa)
By Walter Gam Nkwi
This article focuses on the Africans who fought in the First World War and the r…
Regional Thematic
Pre-war Military Planning (Africa)
By Timothy J. Stapleton
Africa did not feature prominently in pre-war military planning. Once the Allies…
Regional Thematic
Prisoners of War (Africa)
By Daniel Steinbach
During the First World War Africans served as combatants, porters, and labourers…
Regional Thematic
Science and Technology (Africa)
By Melvin E. Page
Although many scientific innovations and technologies came to the continent with…
Regional Thematic
War Aims and War Aims Discussions (Africa)
By Brian Digre
The First World War led to a renewed imperialist scramble for territory in Afric…
Regional Thematic
War and Colonial Finance (Africa)
By Karin Pallaver
This article provides a brief overview of the financial contribution of the Afri…
Regional Thematic
War Losses (Africa)
By Joe Harris Lunn
Human resources in Africa were exploited during the First World War for imperial…
Encyclopedic Entries
Entry
Empire
By Erez Manela
World War I was not simply a conflict among European states but a global war of …
Entry
Schutztruppe (East Africa, Southwest Africa, Cameroon)
By Thomas Morlang
Between 1891 and 1894 colonial forces, named “Schutztruppe”, were established in…
Entry
Tirailleurs Sénégalais
By Richard Fogarty
The tirailleurs sénégalais (Senegalese riflemen) figured prominently among the m…
See Also
Thematic
Colonial Policy, Colonial Conflicts and War before 1914
By Jonas Kreienbaum
While there were no major wars between European great powers in the decades prec…
Thematic
Commemoration, Cult of the Fallen
By Stéphane Tison
The First World War ushered in an unprecedented wave of commemorations. Mass dea…
Thematic
Extra-European Theatres of War
By Michelle Moyd
The extra-European theatres of World War I have received far less scholarly atte…
Thematic
Imperialism
By Boris Barth
This article focuses on the extent to which imperialism contributed to the outbr…
Thematic
Negotiating and Mediating Conduct of War
By Matthew Stibbe
Many issues surrounding the conduct of war in the years 1914-1918 were imperviou…
Thematic
Non-European Soldiers
By Richard Fogarty, Andrew Tait Jarboe
This article examines the use by Great Britain and France of colonial subjects f…
Thematic
Post-war Societies
By Richard Bessel
The First World War caused unprecedented disruption to societies across the glob…
