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"There Came A Darkness": Keynote Address

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2022

Edward Paice
Edward Paice*
Affiliation:
Africa Research Institute
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I am honoured to have been asked to give the keynote speech at this year's SCOLMA conference, especially so for two reasons. Firstly, Terry Barringer, John Pinfold, Mandy Banton, Lucy McCann and others connected with SCOLMA were an invaluable source of assistance and advice when I was researching Tip & Run - The Untold Tragedy of the Great War in Africa. Secondly, if I am honest I feel like a bit of a ‘has been’: Tip & Run was published almost a decade ago and since then scholarship in the field has flourished. The evidence is before us today, with papers on a wide range of new topics to do with World War 1 in Africa.

Since the millennium interest in the Africa campaigns has grown exponentially across a broad front. Knowledge has been advanced by academic and popular historians, medal collectors, descendants of combatants, military associations.

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Research Article
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African Research and Documentation , Volume 128: Papers from Scolma's 2015 Conference: “There came a Darkness”: Africa, Africans and World War I, Friday, 17 July 2015, The British Library Conference Centre , 2015 , pp. 2 - 9
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Copyright © International African Institute 2015

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