Producing for the War

Byfield, Judith A.

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“…The Second World War had already demonstrated that the British had to rely heavily on their colonies to drive home the victory. 61 Shambaai's residents knew that British power was beginning to wane, and used this as a welcome invitation for their mockery. The letter-writers easily incorporated the Mau Mau imagery into their own claim-making strategies.…”

Section: Osale and Paulo As A Consequence Of The Weakness Of Local Chmentioning

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Fear and mockery: the story of Osale and Paulo in Tanganyika

Lämmert

2020

Journal of Eastern African Studies

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This article analyses the popular story of the two 'social bandits' Osale and Paulo who caused insecurity and fear in Tanganyika's Usambara Mountains during the 1950s. By comparing various oral accounts of the story and supplementing the sparse archival material available, the paper reveals a narrative of multiple anxieties haboured by the residents of Shambaai during a time of rapid transformation under late colonial rule. As they reworked the racialized colonial hierarchy through their narratives, African storytellers dealt with anxieties concerning settler colonialism, Mau Mau, land scarcity and the colonial administration's disastrous soil conservation policy. The article demonstrates the importance of taking seriously oral histories for our understanding of African responses to the anxieties of the late colonial period. Furthermore, it sheds new light on the relations between white settlers and Africans in the Usambara Mountains in the light of the administration's rigorous intervention into African agriculture.

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Section: Osale and Paulo As A Consequence Of The Weakness Of Local Chmentioning

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Fear and mockery: the story of Osale and Paulo in Tanganyika

Lämmert

2020

Journal of Eastern African Studies

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“…The Second World War has spawned much literature; still more aspects of the war and people that contributed in varying degrees to its successful prosecution remain to be studied. In fact, despite a growing body of literature on Africa and the Second World War (Byfield, 2015;Killingray and Rathbone, 1986;UNESCO, 1985), the history of the war is written and taught in the UK in textbooks that 'are Anglo-centric within a Euro-centric and Caucasian world picture'. The contributions of the different races and nationalities to the defeat of the Axis powers during 'the most devastating and destructive conflict in human history' are thereby not reflected (Foster, 2005).…”

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“…Consequently, he challenges historians to urgently conduct more local studies of recruitment for military service and labour, 'if we are to advance our understanding of the war' (287)(288). The Nigerian case study has continued to await its historian, despite impressive scholarly publications on the war (Byfield, 2007(Byfield, , 2015Chuku, 2010;Crowder, 1974;Dumett, 1985;Falola, 1989Falola, , 1992Faluyi, 1989;Mordi, 2017a;Njoku, 1977Njoku, -1978Olusanya, 1973). It is thus a neglected theme in the historiography of Africa and the Second World War.…”

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What if the Huns Come? Imperial Britain’s Attitude Towards Nigerians’ Enthusiasm for Military Service During the Second World War, 1939–1942

Mordi

2019

Journal of Asian and African Studies

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In this article, Britain’s attitude towards Nigerians’ voluntary enlistment as combatants during the Second World War is studied. The historical method is deployed to interrogate previously untapped archival sources on the subject. Against the conventional wisdom, this micro-study posits Britain’s rebuff of Nigerians’ voluntary enlistment in order to preserve white supremacy by not arming and deploying Africans to fight Europeans. Nigerians protested the British treatment of the war as a white man’s war in which Africans had no significant role to play. Pressure on British manpower necessitated a policy reversal. Conscription was, thus, not due to Africans’ refusal to fight for Britain.

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Forest Policy, Wildlife Destruction, and Disease Ecologies

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Environmental Histories of the First World War

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Producing for the War

Cited by 8 publications

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Fear and mockery: the story of Osale and Paulo in Tanganyika

Fear and mockery: the story of Osale and Paulo in Tanganyika

What if the Huns Come? Imperial Britain’s Attitude Towards Nigerians’ Enthusiasm for Military Service During the Second World War, 1939–1942

Forest Policy, Wildlife Destruction, and Disease Ecologies

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