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Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa

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The askari, African soldiers recruited within the 1890s to fill the ranks of the German East African colonial army, occupy a unique space at the intersection of East African history, German colonial history, and military history.

Lauded by Germans for their loyalty all the way through the East Africa campaign of World War I, but reviled by Tanzanians for the violence they committed all the way through the making of the colonial state between 1890 and 1918, the askari have been poorly understood as historical agents. Violent Intermediaries situates them in their on a regular basis household, community, military, and constabulary roles, as men who helped make colonialism in German East Africa.

By linking microhistories with wider nineteenth-century African historical processes, Michelle Moyd shows how as soldiers and colonial intermediaries, the askari built the colonial state even as concurrently carving out paths to respectability, becoming men of influence within their local contexts.

Through its focal point at the making of empire from the ground up, Violent Intermediaries offers a fresh viewpoint on African colonial troops as state-making agents and critiques the mythologies surrounding the askari by that specialize in the nature of colonial violence.

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