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Featuring contributions by new and established Africanist scholars, this volume is the first book-length treatment of “martial race” in Africa.
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Introduction: Martial Races in African History MYLES OSBORNE
1 In Mombasa They Are “Like Prisoners” to the Mijikenda: Martiality, Trade, and Inland Influences on a Swahili Port City DAVID BRESNAHAN
2 Martial Races in Alawite and French Protectorate Morocco: Black Soldiers, Slavery, and Women’s Labor in the Abid al-Bukhari and Tirailleurs Sénégalais SARAH J. ZIMMERMAN
3 A Question of Interpretation: Warfare and Martial Race Theory in West Africa SARAH DAVIS WESTWOOD
4 “Black Skin, White Heart:” The Construction of the Martial Race Category in French West Africa STÉPHANIE SOUBRIER
5 Women, Militarism, and Martial Identities among the Acholi of Northern Uganda, 1800–1962 LUCY TAYLOR
6 “To Cool the Hot Blood of a Martial Race:” Balancing Zulu Martiality and British Colonial Anxieties, 1879–1906 LIZ TIMBS
7 “Brotherhood That Binds the Brave:” Sudanese Soldiers and the Paradox of Martial Identities in the Age of Empire RON LAMOTHE and MICHELLE MOYD
8 From “Savage” to “Serviceable:” Changing Attitudes toward a Martial African Society in German East Africa STEVEN FABIAN
9 The Yoruba as a “Martial Race:” The History of an Idea and Its Alternatives, 1890–1960 OLIVER COATES
10 From Martial Races to a People’s Army: Decolonization and Martial Identity in Tanzania CHARLES G. THOMAS
Afterword: Martial Races in Africa and India HEATHER STREETS-SALTER
Contributors
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About the author
Myles Osborne is an associate professor of history at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of
Ethnicity and Empire in Kenya: Loyalty and Martial Race among the Kamba, c. 1800 to the Present, coauthor of
Africans and Britons in the Age of Empires, 1660-1980, and editor of
The Life and Times of General China: Mau Mau and the End of Empire in Kenya.
Summary
Featuring contributions by new and established Africanist scholars, this volume is the first book-length treatment of “martial race” in Africa.
