Patterns of rural protest: Chiefs, slaves, and peasants in north western Sierra Leone 1896-1956 PhD dissertation by Ismail Rachid focusing on slave and peasant resistance to…
Reflections on the 1955 Freetown Riots by a senior police officer This is not a first hand account of the riots, and it is given from the point of view of a police…
Strikes and riots in Sierra Leone, 1955 (Hansard) Discussion from the House of Commons after British troops suppressed strikes and riots in Sierra Leone by shooting into crowds, killing twenty…
Puerto Rico: flame of resistance This is a hard to find book providing an overview of resistance leaders, movements, and attempts at self-government in Puerto Rico.
Japan's wartime use of colonial labour: Taiwan and Korea (1937-45) A thesis detailing the extent of the exploitation of colonial labourers of Taiwanese and Korean…
The Aba Women's War The “Women’s War” is seen as the first major challenge to British authority in Nigeria and West Africa during the colonial period, and took…
Aba Women’s War of 1929 Short history by Lorna Lueker Zukas of the Aba Women's War of 1929-1930 against social, political and economic grievances with British colonial…
Timeline of the German and Herero, Nama War and Genocide The 1904-1907 Herero and Nama revolt and genocide was the first use of concentration camps by the…
Herero Revolt 1904-1907 A short account of the Herero revolt against the German empire in what is now Namibia.
The colonial development of concentration camps The practice of concentrating civilians in guarded camps or centres, specifically as part of a counter-guerrilla military strategy during wartime…
Black concentration camps during the second Anglo-Boer war The Boer war involved three networks of concentration camps. Boer (white) camps with women and…
Women & Children in White Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902 The Boer war involved three networks of concentration camps. Boer (white) camps with women and…
