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 Almost 500 years ago, a man named Yasuke drew crowds wherever he went in Japan. He was the…
ADF STAFF Sayyida Salme’s life was a whirlwind. She was a sultan’s daughter from what is now Tanzania. Denied any…
ADF STAFF The Sultanate of Damagaram was never one of Africa’s biggest empires. In what is now Niger, at its…
ADF STAFF The Kingdom of Axum, also known as Aksum, was the first to do many things in Sub-Saharan Africa.…
ADF STAFF The storyteller historians of the Kingdom of Benin say that in about the year 1200, Evian, the kingdom’s…
ADF STAFF In 1978 during the war between Tanzania and Uganda, Tanzanian Brig. Gen. John Walden got on his army’s…
The pharaohs of ancient Egypt were fascinated by a distant place known as the Land of Punt, or simply Punt.…
ADF STAFF The kingdom of Zimbabwe fell into decline in the early 15th century. Some historians say the region was…
The Rules of the Manden Charter Echo Today ADF STAFF Photo by REUTERS When the warrior Keita Sundiata learned that his…
ADF STAFF I teach kings the history of their ancestors, so that the lives of the ancients might serve them…