Africa and World War II / Judith Byfield, Cornell University, Carolyn A. Brown, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Timothy Parsons, Washington University in St. Louis, Ahmad Sikainga, Ohio State University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I. Introduction -- The experiences of ordinary Africans in World War II / Timothy Parsons (Washington University in St. Louis) -- Producing for the war / Judith A. Byfield (Cornell University) -- African labor in the making of World War II / Carolyn Brown (Rutgers University-New Brunswick) -- Part II. Colonial subjects and imperial armies -- The military, race and resistance: the conundrums of recruiting Black South African men during the Second World War / Louis Grundlingh (University of Johannesburg) -- The Moroccan "effort de guerre" in World War II / Driss Maghraoui (Al Akhawayn University) -- Free to coerce: forced labor during and after the Vichy years in French West Africa / Catherine Bogosian Ash (Wayne State University) -- No country fit for heroes: the plight of disabled Kenyan veterans / Timothy Parsons (Washington University in St. Louis) -- Part III. Mobilizing communities and resources for the war effort -- Women, rice and war: political and economic crisis in war-time Abeokuta (Nigeria) / Judith A. Byfield (Cornell University) -- Africa's 'battle for rubber' in the Second World War / William G. Clarence-Smith (SOAS) -- Freetown and World War II: strategic militarization, accommodation, and resistance / Allen M. Howard (Rutgers University-New Brunswick) -- Free France, unfree Africa: extraction and labor in French Equatorial Africa under free French rule / Eric T. Jennings (University of Toronto) -- The Portuguese African colonies and World War II / Malyn Newitt (King's College London, Emeritus) -- Pitsawyers, rubber tappers, and forest farmers: World War II and the transformation of the Tanzanian forests / Thaddeus Sunseri (Colorado State University-Fort Collins) -- Part IV. Race, gender and social change in a time of war -- Wrestling with race on the eve of human rights: British management of the color line in post-fascist Eritrea / Giulia Barrera (Italian Archives Directorate) -- To be treated as a man: masculinity, race and the imperial state in the Nigerian coal industry / Carolyn Brown (Rutgers University-New Brunswick) -- "A white man's war": settler masculinity in the union defense force, 1939-1945 / Suryakanthie Chetty (University of Johannesburg) -- African soldiers, French women and colonial fears during and after World War II / Ruth Ginio (Ben Gurion University-Negev) -- World War II and the sex trade in British West Africa / Carina Ray (Fordham University) -- Part V. Experiencing war in Africa and Europe -- American missions in wartime French West Africa / Barbara M. Cooper (Rutgers University-New Brunswick) -- Fighting fascism: Ethiopian women patriots 1935-1941 / Hailu Habtu (Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia) and Judith A. Byfield (Cornell University) -- Defending the land of their ancestors: African American military experience in Africa during World War II / Daniel Hutchinson (Florida State University) -- French African soldiers in German POW camps, 1940-1945 / Raffael Scheck (Colby College) -- Part VI. World War II & anti-colonialism -- Resistance & mobilization: Guinea and World War II / Elizabeth Schmidt (Loyola College In Maryland) -- Sudanese response to World War II / Ahmad Sikainga (Ohio State University) -- Uganda after World War II / Carol Summers (University Of Richmond) -- Part VII. Conclusion -- Consequences of the war / Ahmad Sikainga (Ohio State University).