Echoes of the Great War: The recordings of African prisoners in the First World War

Apart from army registers, some (often anonymous) photographs and the files of anthropometric examination, the involvement of thousands of African soldiers in WWI and their presence in POW camps in Europe seems to have left few traces in European archives. Vis-à-vis a mass of autobiographic texts o...

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Main Author: Anette Hoffmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Open University 2014-10-01
Series:The Open Arts Journal
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Online Access:https://openartsjournal.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/hoffmann_v3_p7-23.pdf