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True to its name, the First World War was a conflict that impacted human lives across the globe. Africa was no exception, with the Great War bringing destruction and famine across the continent as European empires fought to conquer each other’s colonial holdings.

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Sources:
Digre, Brian, “Colonial Warfare and Occupation (Africa),” 19141918online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War
Hoisington, William, Lyautey and the French conquest of Morocco, 1995
Killingray, D. (2012). John Horne (ed.). Companion to World War I. London: Blackwell.
Roberts, Andrew, Roland Anthony Oliver, and J. D. Fage, The Cambridge History of Africa: Vol. 7: From 1905 to 1940, 1986

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