West African Soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army, 1860-1960

Explores the history of Britain's colonial army in West Africa, especially the experiences of ordinary soldiers recruited in the region.

West African Soldiers in Britain's Colonial Army explores the complex and constantly changing experience of West African soldiers under British command in Nigeria, the Gold Coast (now Ghana), Sierra Leone, and the Gambia. Since cost and tropical disease limited the deployment of British metropolitan troops to the region, British colonial rule in West Africa...