That was Tanganyika during World War I, where one of history’s boldest underdog stories unfolded, right here in East Africa.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP ... died serving in armies in the 1914-1918 war. After the war, they were not recognized because of the racial policies of British colonialism and then South ...

Kamina wireless station was completed in July 1914 and was a pivotal point for ... of Allied naval movements around the coast of Africa. The British feared this would put troop ships from ...

A key motive of the Germans was to cut off British supplies by crippling ... who became the first causality of WWI in East Africa. In the meantime, some of the armed officers at the station ...

The British Empire is also dragged into the conflict and the war in Europe starts to expand across the globe. The first shots of World War One are fired in Africa. By 1914 the German Empire has ...

The British futurist writer and social commentator H.G. Wells invented the phrase. He predicted that WWI would be the last war in his article titled “The War That Will End War,” published ...