Bibframe Work

Part I. Introduction

The experiences of ordinary Africans in World War II / Timothy Parsons (Washington University in St. Louis)

Producing for the war / Judith A. Byfield (Cornell University)

African labor in the making of World War II / Carolyn Brown (Rutgers University-New Brunswick)

Part II. Colonial subjects and imperial armies

The military, race and resistance: the conundrums of recruiting Black South African men during the Second World War / Louis Grundlingh (University of Johannesburg)

The Moroccan "effort de guerre" in World War II / Driss Maghraoui (Al Akhawayn University)

Free to coerce: forced labor during and after the Vichy years in French West Africa / Catherine Bogosian Ash (Wayne State University)

No country fit for heroes: the plight of disabled Kenyan veterans / Timothy Parsons (Washington University in St. Louis)

Part III. Mobilizing communities and resources for the war effort

Women, rice and war: political and economic crisis in war-time Abeokuta (Nigeria) / Judith A. Byfield (Cornell University)

Africa's 'battle for rubber' in the Second World War / William G. Clarence-Smith (SOAS)

Freetown and World War II: strategic militarization, accommodation, and resistance / Allen M. Howard (Rutgers University-New Brunswick)

Free France, unfree Africa: extraction and labor in French Equatorial Africa under free French rule / Eric T. Jennings (University of Toronto)

The Portuguese African colonies and World War II / Malyn Newitt (King's College London, Emeritus)

Pitsawyers, rubber tappers, and forest farmers: World War II and the transformation of the Tanzanian forests / Thaddeus Sunseri (Colorado State University-Fort Collins)

Part IV. Race, gender and social change in a time of war

Wrestling with race on the eve of human rights: British management of the color line in post-fascist Eritrea / Giulia Barrera (Italian Archives Directorate)

To be treated as a man: masculinity, race and the imperial state in the Nigerian coal industry / Carolyn Brown (Rutgers University-New Brunswick)

"A white man's war": settler masculinity in the union defense force, 1939-1945 / Suryakanthie Chetty (University of Johannesburg)

African soldiers, French women and colonial fears during and after World War II / Ruth Ginio (Ben Gurion University-Negev)

World War II and the sex trade in British West Africa / Carina Ray (Fordham University)

Part V. Experiencing war in Africa and Europe

American missions in wartime French West Africa / Barbara M. Cooper (Rutgers University-New Brunswick)

Fighting fascism: Ethiopian women patriots 1935-1941 / Hailu Habtu (Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia) and Judith A. Byfield (Cornell University)

Defending the land of their ancestors: African American military experience in Africa during World War II / Daniel Hutchinson (Florida State University)

French African soldiers in German POW camps, 1940-1945 / Raffael Scheck (Colby College)

Part VI. World War II & anti-colonialism

Resistance & mobilization: Guinea and World War II / Elizabeth Schmidt (Loyola College In Maryland)

Sudanese response to World War II / Ahmad Sikainga (Ohio State University)

Uganda after World War II / Carol Summers (University Of Richmond)

Part VII. Conclusion

Consequences of the war / Ahmad Sikainga (Ohio State University).