Fighting for the Empire

Chima J. Korieh is Professor of African History and Africana Studies at Marquette University and the Institute of African Studies, University of Nigeria.

• Acknowledgements PART I. BACKGROUND1 Resilience and Resistance of Africa in Twentieth-Century Global Conflict: An IntroductionChima J. Korieh2 The British Empire, Dzikho la Nyasaland, and Two World Wars Melvin E. PagePART II. POLITICS, WAR, AND SOCIETY IN WORLD WAR I3 Plots and Conspiracies: British and German First World War Strategies in the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa Patrick Gilkes and Martin Plaut4 Sayid Maxamed Cabdulle Xasan, World War I, and Italian Colonialism in Somalia Abdiwahid Osman Haji and William Felepchuk5 Treatment of Enemy Subjects and Social Unrest in Nigeria during World War I Olisa Godson MuojamaPART III. RACE, WAR, SOCIETY, AND WORLD WAR II6 Provisioning for War: Food Crisis on the Nigerian Homefront during the Second World War Chima J. Korieh7 British Price Control Policy and Internal Disturbances in Southwestern Nigeria during World War II Abiodun S. Afolabi and Marklene Chinatu Ugbogu8 Stories about the French Recruitment of Moroccan Soldiers during World War II: A History from Below Otman Bychou9 Black Skin, White Cause: Belanda Hitam and Force Noire in Indochina and Indonesia during World War II Yvonne Tan10 Equality for Blood: African Soldiers’ Struggles for Rights after World War II Ruth Ginio11 Mohammed V, Anti-Semitism, and the Moroccan Homefront during the Second World War Kingsley C. Ezeuwa12 West African Soldiers’ Voices in World War II: Between Texts, Oral History, and Digital CultureOliver Coates13 Second World War Veterans and the End of Colonialism in Kenya Janet Achieng OmbimaAfterword Melvin E. PageSelected Bibliography Note on Contributors Index

This anthology evidences the crucial place of Africa in understanding the World Wars as it adeptly closes the gaps in the historiography of the major global conflicts of the 20th century. This book is an important feature of the African agency in the World Wars by exploring the intersection of politics, colonialism, imperial ambitions, and the world wars relating to the African experience in the major global conflicts of the 20th century. - Apollos O Nwauwa, Bowling Green State University