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Title: | Clock Towers for the Colonized: Demobilization of the Nigerian Military and the Readjustment of Its Veterans to Civilian Life, 1918-1925 |
Author: | Matthews, James K. |
Year: | 1981 |
Periodical: | International Journal of African Historical Studies |
Volume: | 14 |
Issue: | 2 |
Pages: | 254-271 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Nigeria |
Subjects: | veterans History and Exploration colonialism Military, Defense and Arms |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/218045 |
Abstract: | In late 1918 and early 1919 the Nigerian military reverted to its prewar establishment, releasing tens of thousands of men from the army and carrier corps. Ironically, large numbers of these Nigerian veterans who had many seeming advantages such as wealth, training, worldliness, position and prestige were unable to make the necessary transition back to civilian life. Sections: Introduction - Demobilization: deceit and desertion - Unremunerated and undecorated - Unemployment: mendicants and wastrels - Failure of resettlement projects - Civilian-veteran antagonisms - Conclusion. Map, notes. |