GWiA – List of papers
(aphabetical by author)
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1. Agro- Ecological and Public Health Repercussions of World War One in Europe: The Belgian
and French Examples
James Olusegun Adeyeri, Lagos State University, Nigeria
[delegate has been asked to draw the focus to the African continent]
2. TBA - German East Africa
Ross Anderson, Independent Historian
3. “Prophet of Air Power”: Jan Smuts and the History of Aviation in South Africa
Tilman Dedering, University of South Africa
4. ‘Picking off the enemy’: Fighting South African soldiers, health and the Campaign in East
Africa, 1916-1918
Anri Delport, Stellenbosch University
5. Great War Leadership Sideshow, or Leadership Showcase? – Considering the diverse
character content of the Union Defence Force’s German South West African Campaign
General Officer Corps
Jacques de Vries, The Castle Military Museum, Cape Town
6. Rebellion and Reconcliation: Keeping the Peace in Wartime South Africa?
Kent Fedorowich, University of the West of England, Bristol
7. Airpower in the Union of South Africa’s Campaign in German South West Africa
Antonio Garcia, SANDF
8. TBA - Keynote
Jeffrey Grey, Universty of New South Wales, Canberra
9. Smuts’s Campaign in German East 1916
David Katz, SA Irish Regiment
10. Disease and Ecological Dislocation in Africa, 1914-1920
Tait Keller, Rhodes College, Memphis TN
11. ‘Water is the chief anxiety’: A critical analysis of the impact of water on the South African Page | 2
campaign in German South West Africa, 1914-1915
Evert Kleynhans, SANDF Documentation Centre
12. Public opinion under fire: South African popaganda dynamics during the Great War, 19141918
Fankie Monama, Stellenbosch University
13. Mobilisation in East Africa during the Great War
Maina Mungai, Independent Historian
14. Unrecognized forces. Congolese Soldiers and Porters during the First World War
Enika Ngongo, Université Saint-Louis– Bruxelles
15. “Diário do alferes de Cavalaria Raul Martinho; Expedição a Moçambique” / Diary of sublieutenant of cavalry Raul Martinho; Expedition to Moçambique, 18 October 1917-13
January 1918
Michael Peres and Kevin A. Garcia, Michael Mount Waldorf School, Bryanston, Johannesburg
16. The Force Publique in the East African Campaign of the First World War
Michael Pesek, Independent Historian
17. The Portuguese Empire in Africa and the First World War
Ana Paula Pires, IHC, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
18. Against the odds: South Africa mobilises for war, 1914-1915
Anne Samson, Independent Historian and Co-ordinator of the Great War in Africa Association
19. An Experiential Account of the Great War in East Africa: Volunteers from the Eastern Cape
Judge Kathleen Satchwell, South Gauteng High Court, Johannesburg
20. To Invade or not to Invade, that is the Question: German Strategic Choices in Southwest
Africa, 1914
James Stejskal, West Virginia
21. Hunters and Trackers in the East Africa Campaign of the First World War
Tim Stapleton, Trent University
22. YMCA Social Work for African Laborers in East Africa during the Great War
Kenneth Steuer, Western Michigan University
23. South Africa’s first battle experiences in German East Africa, 1916
Jakobus van Aarde, Stellenbosch University
24. The Senussi and the War in North Africa, 1911-1917
Ian van der Waag, Stellenbosch University
25. Uncovering the First World War in British East Africa
James Willson, Independent Historian
26. African apocalypse; war and colonial crisis in Northern Rhodesia, 1914-18
Edmund Yorke, War Studies, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst
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