Imperial War Museum South African Native Labour Corps troops around brazier at their camp Dannes, France, March 1917 What sounds like mechanical air-raid siren morphs into human cry of loss at the start of The Head & the Load, powerful ninety-minute stage production about the role and remembrance of Africans..…

Yet the elites of the war, especially those on the winning side, were already taking advantage of the war's drastic restructuring of international affairs and domestic politics to plan for the salvation of the empire, or hegemony, or control of vast supplies of raw materials and fuel, or greater. ..…

Army's Special Forces Group, based Europe since the 1950s, was coordinating more than 2,000 conventional and unconventional troops from more than dozen countries, including Germany, Britain, Netherlands, Canada, and even non- NATO-member Sweden. The commander of the operation told me he..…