University of Wisconsin–Madison

“Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire”

Samuel Fury Childs Daly

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Room 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive

Event flyer for talk by Samuel Fury Childs Daly entitled "Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire". The event flyer includes a historical image of soldiers holding a flag and walking past people gathered outside homes. A portrait of the speaker also appears - there is a grey background and the speaker wears a green shirt and smiles into the camera. See the associated webpage for further details.In Africa, the late twentieth century was a time of military coups and martial “revolutions.” In Nigeria and other former British colonies, the army officers who took power tried to remake their societies along military lines. They had utopian visions, and Samuel Fury Childs Daly describes the dismal ideology that they made: militarism.
Co-sponsored by: Wisconsin Veterans Museum, War in Society and Culture Program, Department of History, African Studies Program