Africa Defense Forum
ADF is a professional military magazine published quarterly by U.S. Africa Command to provide an international forum for African security professionals. ADF covers topics such as counter terrorism strategies, security and defense operations, transnational crime, and all other issues affecting peace, stability, and good governance on the African continent.
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ADF STAFF According to the oral histories passed down by the griots, or storytellers, the Kingdom of Benin’s greatest king…
ADF STAFF In the seventh century, Islam began spreading from the Arabian Peninsula west to what is now Spain, and…
ADF STAFF The Maravi kingdom, which took up parts of what are now Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and eastern Zimbabwe, was…
ADF STAFF Uganda’s five kingdoms date back hundreds of years and continue to play a role in the lives of…
ADF STAFF The Hajj, the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, dates to the seventh century, the time…
CLUES Walled towns and settlements, known as paletas, were built on high plains or hills to provide a strategic and…
ADF STAFF Great Zimbabwe is mostly deserted now, but in its time it was a wondrous place. Historians believe that…
ADF STAFF In 1861, 3,000 heavily armed female Soldiers charged a thorny wall during a skills demonstration. King Glele, their…
ADF STAFF An Ashanti woman who shamed her tribe’s warriors into standing up for themselves more than 100 years ago…
ADF STAFF Asli Hassan Abade made history as the first female air force pilot in Africa. She is a product…