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War and Society in Africa since 1800

Pages 131-153 | Published online: 14 Jan 2009

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  • Cobbing , J. 1988 . Journal of African History , : 3 – 519 . This is the accusation made by in ‘The Mfecane as Alibi: Thoughts on Dithakong and Mbolompo’, 29, 487.See also J. Wright, ‘Political Mythology and the Making of Natal's Mfecane’, Canadian Journal of African Studies 23 (1989). H. Kjekshus, Ecolog Control and Economic Development in East African History: The Case of Tanganyika 1850–1950 (London, 1972), ch. 1, argues that the impact of wars in nineteenth century Tanganyika ‘may have been small’, a view questioned by J. Koponen, ‘War, Famine, and Pestilence in Late Precolonial Tanzania: A Case for Heightened Mortality’, The International Journal of African Historical Studies 21, 4 (1988)
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  • For an accessible account see M. Last, ‘Reform in West Africa: The Jihad Movements of the Nineteenth Century’, ch. 1 in J.F.A Ajayi and M. Crowder, eds., History of Wat Africa, vol. 2 (London, 1987)
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  • Ajayi and Smith . Yoruba Warfare 53
  • McCarthy , M. 1983 . Social Change and the Growth of British Power in the Gold Coast: The Fante States 1807–1874 Lanham, MD 81ff
  • Crummey , D. 1971 . Journal of Ethiopian Studies , 9 : 2 Warfare in Tewodros’ reign is discussed in measured terms by, ‘The Violence of Tewodros’, See also K. Darkwah, Shewa, Menilek and the Ethiopian Empire, 1813–1889 (London, 1975)
  • Wesseling , H. L. 1989 . “ eds. ” . In Imperialism and War: Essays on Colonial Wars in Asia and Africa Edited by: de , J. A. Leiden Moor and part 4;AJ. Matson, Nandi Resistance to British Rule (Nairobi, 1972);E. Isichei, The Igbo People and the Europeans (London, 1973)
  • Cobbing, ‘The Mfecane as Alibi’. The literature on the wars on the Eastern Frontier is extensive; see M. Wilson, ‘Co-operation and Conflict: The Eastern Cape Frontier’, in M. Wilson and L. Thompson, eds, A History of South Africa to 1870 (London, 1982)
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  • See the exchange of letters in the Southern African Review of Books, Feb./May, June/July, and Aug./Oct. 1990
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  • Warwick , P. and Spies , S. B. 1981 . “ eds ” . In The South Africa War: The Anglo-Boer War 1899–1902 London P. Warwick, Black People and the South African War (Cambridge, 1983);J. Comaroff, Sol T. Plaatje. Mafeking Diary. A Black Man's View of a White Man's War (London, 1973;2nd. ed. 1990);B. Nasson, Abraham Esau's War: A Black South African War in the Cape, 1899–1902 (Cambridge, 1991)
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  • Page , M. ‘The War of Thangata: Nyasaland and the East African Campaign, 1914–1918’, The Journal of African History, 19,1 (1978);M. Page, ‘Malawians in the Great War’ (PhD thesis, Michigan State University, 1977);M. Page, ed., Africa and the First World War (London, 1987);A. Clayton and D. Savage, Government and Labour in Kenya 1895–1963 (London, 1974);G.W.T. Hodges, ‘African Manpower Statistics for the British Forces in East Africa, 1914–1918’, Journal of African History 19, 1 (1978);G.W.T. Hodges, ‘The Carrier Corps’: Military Labour in the East African Campaign, 1914–1918 (Westport, 1986);I.R.G. Spencer, ‘The First World War and the Origins of the Dual Policy of Development in Kenya, 1914–1922’, World Development 9, 8 (1981);EJ. Yorke, ‘A Crisis of Colonial Control: War and Authority in Northern Rhodesia, 1914–19’ (PhD thesis, University of Cambridge, 1984)
  • Willan , B. “ The South African Native Labour Contingent, 1914–1918 ” . Journal of African History, 19,1 (1978);A. Grundlingh, Figluing Their Own War: South African Blacks in the First World War (Johannesburg, 1987)
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  • Lonsdale , J. 1981 . “ ‘State and Peasantry in Colonial Africa’ ” . In People's History and Socialist Theory Edited by: Samuel , R. 112 London in, ed., J. Overton, ‘War and Economic Underdevelopment? State exploitation and African Response in Kenya 1914–1918’, The International Journal of African Historical Studies 22, 2 (1989)
  • Kjekshus, Ecology Control and Economic Development, 153
  • There is a growing literature on the influenza pandemic in Africa. For background, see K.D. Patterson, ‘The Demographic Impact of the 1918–19 Influenza Epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Preliminary Assessment’, in C. Fyfe and D. McMaster, eds, African Historical Demography, vol. 2 (Edinburgh, 1981);K.D. Patterson and G.F. Pyle, “The Diffusion of Influenza in Sub-Saharan Africa during 1918–19’, Social Science Medicine 17,17 (1983). For southern Africa see H. Phillips, ‘Black October’: The Impact of the Spanish Influenza Epidemic of 1918 on South Africa (Pretoria, 1990);H. Phillips, “The Local State and Public Health Reform in South Africa: Bloemfontein and the Consequences of the Spanish ‘Flu Epidemic of 1918’, Journal of Southern African Studies 13, 2 (1987);H. Phillips, ‘South Africa's Worst Demographic Disaster: The Spanish Influenza Epidemic of 1918’, South African Historical Journal 20 (1988);I.R. Phimister, “The “Spanish” Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and its Impact on the Southern Rhodesian Mining Industry’, Central African Journal of Medicine 19 (1973);J.V. Spear, ‘An Epidemic among the Bakgatla: The Influenza of 1918’, Botswana Notes and Records 11 (1979);T.O. Ranger, “The Influenza Pandemic in Southern Rhodesia: A Crisis of Comprehension’, in D. Arnold, ed., Imperial Medicine and Indigenous Societies (Manchester, 1989). Also see D. Arnold, “The Influenza Epidemic of 1918–19 in the Gold Coast’, Journal of African History 24, 4 (1984);R. Pankhurst, “The “Hedar Basita” of 1918’, Journal of Ethiopian Studies 13 (1975)
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  • Zartman , I. W. 1989 . Ripe for Resolution: Conflict and Intervention in Africa New York, updated ed. surveys the current conflicts in Africa
  • Markakis , J. 1987 . National and Class Conflict in the Horn of Africa Cambridge
  • Kismaric , C. 1989 . Forced Out: The Agony of Refugees in our Time Harmondsworth (And for the Horn, an area seriously affected by large-scale refugee movement, see M. Bulcha, Flight and Interaction: Causes of Mass Exodus from Ethiopia and Problems of Integration in the Sudan (Uppsala, 1988)
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  • Hall , M. 1990 . “The Mocambican National Resistance Movement (RENAMO): A Study in the Destruction of an African Country’ . Africa , 60 : 1 (South Africa's policies to destabilise its neighbours are carefully documented and described by Joseph Hanlon in two books, Beggar Your Neighbours: Apartheid Power in Southern Africa (London, 1986) and Apartheid's Second Front: South Africa's War against its Neighbours (Harmondsworth, 1986). See also P. Johnson and D. Martin, eds, Destructive Engagement: Southern Africa at War (Harare, 1986), and republished as Frontline Southern Africa: Destructive Engagement (London, 1989);and also their Apartheid Terrorism: The Destabilisation Report (London, 1989). The political, social and economic condition of the SADCC states is usefully discussed by S. Smith, Frontline Africa: The Right to a Future (Oxford, 1990)
  • Cock , J. and Nathan , L. 1989 . “ eds ” . In War and Society: The Militarisation of South Africa 2 Cape Town
  • Grundy , K. W. 1986 . The Militarization of South African Politics London J. Frederikse, South Africa: A Different Kind of War (Johannesburg, 1986)

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