Just as Africans were taking their first, tentative steps towards nationhood and independence, Spain and Italy launched what turned out to be the last large-scale wars of conquest on the continent, in Morocco and Abyssinia. Both nations were driven by greed and historic grievances which alleged that their legitimate imperial ambitions had been frustrated or […]
Africa Colonial Wars 1919–1939 Part I — Weapons and Warfare
I read this with my morning coffee and was fascinated by this content – mainly as I didn’t know most of it…so had to share.