Explores the history of Britain's colonial army in West Africa, especially the experiences of ordinary soldiers recruited in the region

"West African Soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army, 1860-1960 explores the history of Britain's West African colonial army based in Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone

Explores the history of Britain's colonial army in West Africa, especially the experiences of ordinary soldiers recruited in the region

As a first of its kind, this edited collection brings together a variety of chapters dealing with different topics that address, where possible, most of the par

Though many historians of colonial Africa are familiar with petitions preserved in archives, few have looked at what this genre of letter writing tells us about