WW1 resulted in huge losses of African lives, had consequences for continent's future. ... 90% were porters. 45,000 among the dead were from British East Africa (Kenya) alone.

A British liner carrying 30,000 chests of tea was captured by a German cruiser off the east coast of Africa, just two days in to the war. So it was imperative to Britain that Germany’s long ...

The Somme, Ypres, Passchendaele, all iconic battles of WW1. But what made it a truly global war are the lesser-known tales from Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

And even if there was no front in the Americas, there was fighting almost everywhere else. The opening shot by a member of the British forces in 1914 was fired not in Europe but in Africa, by a ...

WW1 resulted in huge losses of African lives, had consequences for continent's future. ... 90% were porters. 45,000 among the dead were from British East Africa (Kenya) alone.