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| Title: | Apartheid's Black Soldiers: Un-national Wars and Militaries in Southern Africa |
| Author: | Bolliger, Lennart |
| Year: | 2022 |
| Pages: | 292 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | War and Militarism in African History |
| City of publisher: | Athens, Ohio |
| Publisher: | Ohio University Press |
| ISBN: | 9780821425114; 9780821424551; 9780821447413 |
| Geographic terms: | Southern Africa South Africa Namibia Angola |
| Subjects: | military personnel black soldiers apartheid |
| Abstract: | New oral histories from Black Namibian and Angolan troops who fought in apartheid South Africa's security forces reveal their involvement, and its impact on their lives, to be far more complicated than most historical scholarship has acknowledged. In anticolonial struggles across the African continent, tens of thousands of African soldiers served in the militaries of colonial and settler states. In southern Africa, they often made up the bulk of these militaries and, in some contexts, far outnumbered those who fought in the liberation movements' armed wings. Despite these soldiers' significant impact on the region's military and political history, this dimension of southern Africa's anticolonial struggles has been almost entirely ignored in previous scholarship. |
