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Nigeria and World War II - Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict (Hardcover)
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Nigeria and World War II - Colonialism, Empire, and Global Conflict (Hardcover)
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Britain's declaration of war on Germany on 3 September, 1939, made
Nigeria, like many other African societies, active participants in
the war against the Axis powers. Leading to large-scale
mobilization of human and materials resources, it transformed lives
and societies in irrevocable ways. Of the 90,000 West African
soldiers deployed to South East Asia after 1943, over half came
from Nigeria. In this important, revisionist history, Chima J.
Korieh examines how the lives of Nigerian producers, workers,
merchants, men, women, and children from across society were
affected. It recounts the extraordinary and often neglected story
of the Nigerian people who were drawn into a global war, the
enormous demands it made on their resources, and the way it would
change both their lives and the societies they lived in. By placing
the role that African societies played in the war within the
contextual and theoretical frameworks of colonialism, race, gender,
identity, labour, intellectual, and social history, Korieh
challenges the dominant perception that World War II was primarily
a European conflict and reveals the global impact of ordinary
Nigerians on the war effort.
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