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Historians of African conflicts and the world wars have neglected the East African campaign of the First World War. This omission contrasts with the now copious literature on the wars of colonial conquest and anti-colonial rebellions, such as the Zulu wars (1879-80), the Maji Maji War in German East Africa , the Chimurenga wars in Zimbabwe, and Mau Mau in Kenya (1952 -56). In larger histories of the First World War, East Africa assumes a relatively marginal place. For Africanist historians and among Africans more generally it has held little interest, being seen as a conflict between rival imperial powers in which Africans had no real stake. In Europe it was viewed as a sideshow. This is a pity. In East Africa the impact on the population was massive. Most fighting was done by African troops from all over the continent. Provisions often came from the requisitioning and looting of African crops and livestock. Given the huge transport difficulties, war materials were transported over vast spaces by well over one million forcibly recruited porters from throughout the region. The theatre of war expanded after the initial feeble British incursions into German East Africa (Tanganyika) to

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Author

Stephen J. Rockel

Publisher

University of Toronto Press; University of Toronto Press Inc; Project Muse; University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (ISSN 0042-0247)

Published

2010

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)