Africa and the First World War : remembrance, memories and representations after 100 years / edited by De-Valera NYM Botchway and Kwame Osei Kwarteng.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Botchway, De-Valera N. Y. M. (De-Valera Nana Yaw Mpere)

Kwarteng, K. Osei (Kwame Osei)

University of Cape Coast

Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.

Conference Name:

Africa and the First World War (2015 : University of Cape Coast)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1914-1918--Campaigns--Africa.

World War, 1914-1918.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Africa and the 1st World War

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

Contents:

Section I Recruitments, Battlefronts and African Responses

Chapter 1 The Role of the Gold Coast Regiment towards the Defeat of the Germans in Africa during World War I p. 2 / Colonel J. Hagan

Chapter 2 Nigerian Soldiers in the East African Campaign of the First World War: 1916-1917 p. 12 / Ibiang O. Ewa

Chapter 3 World War I: The Role of the Gold Coast and Asante towards the British Victory p. 24 / Kwame O. Kwarteng

Chapter 4 Bewilderment, Speculations and Benefaction: Africans' Interpretation of World War One in the Literature of the Sudan United Mission British Branch p. 52 / Jordan S. Rengshwat

Section II Wartime Colonial Economic Policies

Chapter 5 African Mobilization of Agricultural Resources in British West Africa during the First World War p. 66 / Adebayo A. Lawal

Chapter 6 Impact of the First World War on Labour Recruitment in the North of the Gold Coast (Ghana) p. 79 / Marciana M. Kuusaana

Chapter 7 The Impact of the First World War on Africa's Transportation Systems: The Nigerian Railways as a Case Study p. 91 / Tokunbo A. Ayoola

Section III Wartime, Society and Mobility

Chapter 8 Detention and Deportation: A Study of the "De-Germanization" of Togoland and the Gold Coast during World War I, 1914-1918 p. 110 / Augustine D. Osei

Chapter 9 Chieftaincy and Indirect Rule: The Nature, Politics, and Exploits of Chiefs during the First World War in West Africa (1914-1930) p. 127 / Samuel Bewiadzi and Margaret Ismaila

Chapter 10 The Influenza Pandemic in the Gold Coast and Asante, 1918-1919 p. 145 / Kwame O. Kwarteng and Stephen Osei-Owusu

Section IV Memory, Remembrance and Representations

Chapter 11 Italy's "Parallel War" in Libya: A Forgotten Front of World War I (1914-1922) p. 164 / Stefano Marcuzzi

Chapter 12 Historical Connections: Appreciating the Impact of the African Past on its Present and Future through the "3 Cs" of the First World War p. 188 / Adjei Adjepong

Chapter 13 Cinema, World War I and the New Nations of Africa: The Case of Ghana p. 226 / Vitus Nanbigne.

Notes:

"'Africa and the First World War : remembrance, memories and representations after a hundred years' conference at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana."--Page viii.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9781527505469

1527505464

OCLC:

1014458125

Publisher Number:

99975617716