African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa · Ohio University Press / Swallow Press

Nés sous l’empire ottoman, morts pour la France : portraits de poilus « syro-libanais » - Claire GRANDCHAMPS - L’Orient-Le Jour
▻https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1142793/nes-sous-lempire-ottoman-morts-pour-la-france-portraits-de-poilus-syr

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Georges, Antoine, Alexandre, Joseph, Jean, Fernand. Des prénoms de poilus comme on en trouve des milliers dans les archives et récits de la Grande guerre. Pourtant, les noms de famille de certains, Massad, Adm, Zaccour, Satouf, Letphallah, Cheikh Abi Khittar, Achoud, Serour, Naïm et Arditi, ont un parfum levantin qui laisse deviner un parcours plus atypique. Ces dix hommes sont nés à la fin du 19e siècle à Beyrouth ou dans le Mont-Liban, territoires alors sous le joug ottoman, et se sont engagés dans les rangs français pendant la Première guerre mondiale. Ils avaient entre 20 et 33 ans quand ils sont tombés pour la France.

Grande Guerre : plus de Mohamed que de Martin parmi les morts pour la France
Victor Alexandre | MAJ : 09 novembre 2018, 7h39
▻http://www.leparisien.fr/actualite/grande-guerre-plus-de-mohamed-que-de-martin-parmi-les-morts-pour-la-franc

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#WWI #Afrique #grande_guerre

Untold history: The WWI battles that levelled East Africa

In WWI, British Empire soldiers fought a four-year guerrilla campaign against a small German force in East Africa.

▻https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/untold-history-wwi-battles-levelled-east-africa-181106001050166.html
#UK #Angleterre #Allemagne #Afrique_de_l'est #Tanzanie

How colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war

The Great War is often depicted as an unexpected catastrophe. But for millions who had been living under imperialist rule, terror and degradation were nothing new.

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Violent Intermediaries. African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa

The #askari, African soldiers recruited in the 1890s to fill the ranks of the German East African colonial army, occupy a unique space at the intersection of East African history, German colonial history, and military history.

Lauded by Germans for their loyalty during the East Africa campaign of World War I, but reviled by Tanzanians for the violence they committed during the making of the colonial state between 1890 and 1918, the askari have been poorly understood as historical agents. Violent Intermediaries situates them in their everyday household, community, military, and constabulary roles, as men who helped make colonialism in German East Africa.

By linking microhistories with wider nineteenth-century African historical processes, Michelle Moyd shows how as soldiers and colonial intermediaries, the askari built the colonial state while simultaneously carving out paths to respectability, becoming men of influence within their local contexts.

Through its focus on the making of empire from the ground up, Violent Intermediaries offers a fresh perspective on African colonial troops as state-making agents and critiques the mythologies surrounding the askari by focusing on the nature of colonial #violence.

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German East Africa - World War 1 Colonial Warfare I THE GREAT WAR Special

The military campaign in German East Africa during World War 1 went on longer than the whole war and thanks to Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and his guerilla warfare is now infamous among the theatres of the great war. But what was the history behind German East Africa and was it really a gentleman’s war and what role did the Askari play in it?

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