GWiA – List of papers

(aphabetical by author)

  1. Agro- Ecological and Public Health Repercussions of World War One in Europe: The Belgian and French Examples

James OlusegunAdeyeri, Lagos State University,Nigeria

[delegate has been asked to draw the focus to the African continent]

  1. TBA - German East Africa

Ross Anderson, Independent Historian

  1. “Prophet of Air Power”: Jan Smuts and the History of Aviation in South Africa

TilmanDedering, University of South Africa

  1. ‘Picking off the enemy’: Fighting South African soldiers, health and the Campaign in East Africa, 1916-1918

Anri Delport, Stellenbosch University

  1. Great War Leadership Sideshow, or Leadership Showcase? – Considering the diverse character content of the Union Defence Force’s German South West African Campaign General Officer Corps

Jacques de Vries, The Castle Military Museum, Cape Town

  1. Rebellion and Reconcliation: Keeping the Peace in Wartime South Africa?

Kent Fedorowich, University of the West of England, Bristol

  1. Airpower in the Union of South Africa’s Campaign in German South West Africa

Antonio Garcia, SANDF

  1. TBA - Keynote

Jeffrey Grey, Universty of New South Wales, Canberra

  1. Smuts’s Campaign in German East 1916

David Katz, SA Irish Regiment

  1. Disease and Ecological Dislocation in Africa, 1914-1920

Tait Keller, Rhodes College, Memphis TN

  1. ‘Water is the chief anxiety’: A critical analysis of the impact of water on the South African campaign in German South West Africa, 1914-1915

Evert Kleynhans, SANDF Documentation Centre

  1. Public opinion under fire: South African popaganda dynamics during the Great War, 1914-1918

Fankie Monama, Stellenbosch University

  1. Mobilisation in East Africa during the Great War

Maina Mungai, Independent Historian

  1. Unrecognized forces. Congolese Soldiers and Porters during the First World War

Enika Ngongo, Université Saint-Louis– Bruxelles

  1. “Diário do alferes de Cavalaria Raul Martinho; Expedição a Moçambique” / Diary of sub-lieutenant of cavalry Raul Martinho; Expedition to Moçambique, 18 October 1917-13 January 1918

Michael Peres and Kevin A. Garcia, Michael Mount Waldorf School, Bryanston, Johannesburg

  1. The Force Publique in the East African Campaign of the First World War

Michael Pesek, Independent Historian

  1. The Portuguese Empire in Africa and the First World War

Ana Paula Pires, IHC, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

  1. Against the odds: South Africa mobilises for war, 1914-1915

Anne Samson, Independent Historian and Co-ordinator of the Great War in Africa Association

  1. An Experiential Account of the Great War in East Africa: Volunteers from the Eastern Cape

Judge Kathleen Satchwell, South Gauteng High Court, Johannesburg

  1. To Invade or not to Invade, that is the Question: German Strategic Choices in Southwest Africa, 1914

James Stejskal, West Virginia

  1. Hunters and Trackers in the East Africa Campaign of the First World War

Tim Stapleton, Trent University

  1. YMCA Social Work for African Laborers in East Africa during the Great War

Kenneth Steuer, Western Michigan University

  1. South Africa’s first battle experiences in German East Africa, 1916

Jakobus van Aarde, Stellenbosch University

  1. The Senussi and the War in North Africa, 1911-1917

Ian van der Waag, Stellenbosch University

  1. Uncovering the First World War in British East Africa

James Willson, Independent Historian

  1. African apocalypse; war and colonial crisis in Northern Rhodesia, 1914-18

Edmund Yorke, War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst