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As the world commemorates the Centenary of the Great War, the African side of this story remains a footnote, despite huge losses of human lives.
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.
The British mobilised more than a million Indian men for the war. They made up one third of the British army on the Western Front in 1914 - but also fought in East Africa and in Mesopotamia.
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.
From the end of the Second World War until the mid-'60s there was a wave of strikes in British East and West Africa, French West Africa, South Africa and Zimbabwe. The history of this class struggle ...
In today's episode of Wars of the World, we put you in the shoes of a British pilot during WW1.
East Africa, a new Dominion: a Crucial Experiment in Tropical Development and its Significance to the British Empire. By Major Archibald Church. Pp. 315 + 12 plates.
The Persian Gulf is emerging as the new hub of globalization, and may be willing to offer African countries deals without Western moralizing or Chinese debt traps.
A map marked with crude chinagraph-pencil in the second decade of the 20th Century shows the ambition - and folly - of the 100-year old British-French plan that helped create the modern-day Middle ...
As the world commemorates the Centenary of the Great War, the African side of this story remains a footnote, despite huge losses of human lives.