Africa and the First World War : remembrance, memories and representations after 100 years /: remembrance, memories and representations after 100 years. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Africa and the 1st World War
• Further Information: Note: Edited by De-Valera NYM Botchway and Kwame Osei Kwarteng.
• Editors: Botchway, De-Valera N. Y. M (De-Valera Nana Yaw Mpere); Kwarteng, K. Osei (Kwame Osei)
• Contents: Introduction / De-Valera N.Y.M. Botchway -- Section I: Recruitment, Battlefronts and African Responses : Chapter One. The Role of the Gold Coast Regiment towards the Defeat of the Germans in Africa during World War I / Colonel J. Hagan -- Chapter Two. Nigerian Soldiers in the East African Campaign of the First World War: 1916-1917 / Ibiang O. Ewa -- Chapter Three. World War I: The Role of the Gold Coast and Aante towards the British Victory / Kwame O. Kwarteng -- Chapter Four. Bewilderment, Speculations and Benefaction: Africans' Interpretation of World War One in the Literature of the Sudan United Mission British Branch / Jordan S. Rengshwat -- Section II: Wartime Colonial Economic Policies : Chapter Five. African Mobilization of Agricultural Resources in British West Africa during the First World War / Adebayo A. Lawal -- Chapter Six. Impact of the First World War on Labour Recruitment in the North of the Gold Coast (Ghana) / Marciana M. Kuusaana -- Chapter Seven. The Impact of the First World War on Africa's Transportation Systems: The Nigerian Railways as a Case Study / Tokunbo A. Ayoola -- Section III: Wartime, Society and Mobility : Chapter Eight: Detention and Deportation: A Study of the "De-Germanization" of Togoland and the Gold Coast during World War I, 1914-1918 / Augustine D. Osei -- Chapter Nine. Chieftaincy and Indirect Rule: The Nature, Politics, and Exploits of Chiefs during the First World War in West Africa (1914-1930) / Samuel Bewiadzi and Mararet Ismaila -- Chapter Ten. The Influenza Pandemic in the Gold Coast and Asante, 1918-1919 / Kwame O. Kwarteng and Stephen Osei-Owusu -- Section IV: Memory, Remembrance and Representations : Chapter Eleven. Italy's "Parallel War" in Libya: A Forgotten Front of World War I (1914-1922) / Stefano Marcuzzi -- Chapter Twelve. Historical Connections: Appreciating the Impact of the African Past on its Present and Future through the "3 Cs" of the First World War / Adjei Adjepong -- Chapter Thirteen. Cinema, World War I and the New Nations of Africa: The Case of Ghana / Vitus Nanbigne.
• Publisher Details: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxiii, 249 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 940.36; History; World War, 1914-1918 -- Africa; Colonies -- Africa -- History -- 20th century; Colonies; Weltkrieg; HISTORY / Europe / Western; Cultural studies; Political science & theory; Africa -- History -- 1884-1918; Africa; Afrika; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781527520424; 1527520420
• Related ISBNs: 1527505464; 9781527505469
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.