HIS 343 First World War in Africa
This course explores the history of the First World War in Africa, where the first and last theatres of the conflict occurred. By the end of the War, approximately two million Africans had participated in the War. Belligerents included farmers, combatants on African and European soil, and female and child porters. By thinking carefully about African experiences, we reassess the history of colonial conquest and resistance, African foreign policies, wartime conscriptions and deployments, economies of production, the Influenza Pandemic of 1918, popular protest and memory, the partition of a continent, and the ongoing legacies of the War.