2.5 Global wars on Africa

• What is a global war
• Effects of the First World War on Africa
• Effects of the Second World War on Africa
• The Cold War and Africa
• The Gulf War and the Russia-Ukraine war: effects on Africa
• Lessons from global wars, and strategies for discouraging them

• explore how the global wars affected Africa
• apply lessons learnt from the global wars for posterity
• desire to discourage global wars for sustainable peace

“Which strategies can the UN apply to discourage global wars?”

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1. Africa and the two World Wars
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   How wars decided in Europe were fought, paid for and felt across Africa - and what they set in motion.
2. The Cold War, later conflicts, and how wars are prevented
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   How the Cold War, the Gulf War and the Russia-Ukraine war have affected Africa, what the lessons are, and what the UN can do.
3. Kenya and East Africa in the First World War
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   How the East African campaign, the Carrier Corps, the Giriama rising and the Soldier Settlement Scheme made 1914-1918 a Kenyan catastrophe, not a European sideshow.
4. Kenya in the Second World War and the road home
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   Where Kenyans served in 1939-1945, what the colony produced, and how returning KAR men, the Atlantic Charter and a bankrupt empire accelerated Kenyan nationalism.
5. Cold War proxy wars: Africa as the battlefield
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   How Angola, Mozambique, the Congo and the Horn were armed by superpowers, why southern African liberation was delayed, and where Kenya stood.
6. Distant wars at the Kenyan table
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   How the Gulf War and the Russia-Ukraine war raised fuel, fertiliser and food prices in Kenya, weakened the shilling, and diverted aid during drought.
7. Lessons from global wars for posterity
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   Turning the World Wars, the Cold War and later shocks into practices Kenya can keep: memory, self-reliance, non-alignment, institutions and peace.
8. Discouraging global wars: the UN, Africa and the citizen
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   UN tools and their veto limit, African regional bodies, the Ezulwini Consensus, and what a Grade 10 learner can do through speech, posters and peace clubs.