Military: During World War II, more than 300,000 East Africans fought for Britain in Ethiopia, Madagascar and Burma. For the first time, some of the neediest are receiving aid--from their former ...

For Africa, World War II began not in 1939, but in 1935. ... As the 70th anniversary of World War II is celebrated around the world, ... And he attacked the British and Americans for encouraging the ...

The British actively recruited slaves belonging to Patriot masters and, consequently, more blacks fought for the Crown. An estimated 100,000 African Americans escaped, died or were killed during ...

'Marvellous' British WW2 film that Churchill tried to ban is on ITVX In a time of crisis, ... Defeats in Southeast Asia and North Africa had left the nation’s morale battered.

Denis Gibbs was an officer in the Royal Corps of Signals and served in North Africa and Italy between 1943 and 1945. During the war, he kept a personal diary detailing his daily experiences ...

In former British colonies, ghosts of past haunt mourning for queen ‘Colonialism is history in the West,’ said a South African writer. ‘But in our countries, colonialism is now.’ ...