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Conference proceedings from 2012-2017 edited by Anne Samson, Ana Paula Pires and Dan Gilfoyle
CONTENTS
Part 1: Military Aspects
East Africa
- How Britain fell into war in East Africa: Anne Samson
- Military overview of the campaign in East Africa: Harry Fecitt
- ‘Bridging the gap’: Exploring the role of the Staff during the 1916 campaign in Tanganyika: David Boyd
- The defence of Karonga and the battle of Kasoa: Peter Charlton
- The Rhodesian Police Units at the front: Timothy Wright
Some naval aspects
- ‘Strike the Colours’: The loss of HMS Pegasus at Zanzibar, 20 September 1914: Kevin Patience
- England expects: Naval action in Nyasaland: Peter Charlton
- ‘Danes’ at war in East Africa: The case of the blockade runner SS Kronborg: Bjarne S Bendtsen
West Africa
- The Advent of War: Anglo-African Relations across West Africa: Nigel Browne-Davies
- Nigeria Regiment in Cameroon: Stewart Hawkins
North West Africa
- Northern and Eastern Africa during the Great War: Harry Fecitt
Part 2 Mobilisation, participants and economics
- Mass mobilisation of human resources: Tanja Bührer
- ‘When two elephants fight it’s the grass that suffers.’ (African proverb): East Africa during the First World War: Oliver Schulten
Participants
- The Belgian Force Publique in German East Africa during World War I: Kris Quanten I can never say about the men – The Jammu and Kashmir Rifles: Andrew Kerr
- On Call in Africa in War and Peace – with 3 East Africa Field Ambulance:
Dr Tony Jewell - Forgotten Citizens and Servicemen: The West African Contribu-tion to the First World War: Nigel Browne-Davies
- The Germans and British in São Vicente Cape Verde: Célia Reis
- Diversity in Adversity: The British in Egypt during the First World War: Lanver Mak
Economics and politics
- The ‘other Portuguese Flanders’: strategic ambition and operational disaster in the Portuguese Great War in Mozambique: António Paulo Duarte; Ana Paula Pires; Bruno Cardoso Reis
- War and Empire: Portuguese East Africa and economic warfare (1914-1919): Ana Paula Pires & Maria Fernanda Rollo
- The Status of the West African Sterling in Southern Nigeria in 1916: Bamidele Aly
Part 3: Researching the African Theatre
- Researching the First World War in Africa: Dan Gilfoyle
- The National Archives (London) Collection: William Spencer
- Bringing African soldiers to life using The National Archives (London) record collections: Martin Willis
- Let the collection tell its own story: Artefacts of the war in German East Africa in the collections of the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and of Military History in Brussels: Jan van der Fraenen
- Citations for military awards: Harry Fecitt
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