The British believed Africans were essentially ... SOLDIER'S POINT OF VIEW "I got into the French army during the colonial period...and first I was a private, then I became a sergeant in the ...

and the British Army wasn’t offering enough money to offset the cost of the lost labor on colonial plantations. Though the government tried to recruit free Black people living in the British ...

Till today, colonial-era laws that ban homosexuality ... "They wanted to protect innocent British soldiers from the 'exotic, mystical Orient' - there was this very orientalised view of Asia ...

At the height of political instability in Kenya in the 1950s, the colonial government ... writes how the British government in East Africa tried various methods to ensure soldiers' sexual needs ...

One British soldier allegedly wrote in a Snapchat post ... where hundreds of thousands of acres was seized by the British during the colonial era, leading to land disputes which continue to ...

See how Idi Amin used lessons learned in the colonial British army to build a powerful dictatorship in Uganda. Through a combination of populist charm and brutal violence, he ruled for eight years ...

He joined the British army, and went into the European ... filled with the voices of Mall Singh and hundreds of other colonial soldiers offering a rare glimpse into their experience of the war.