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 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…
ADF STAFF For a time, skirmishes between rival Nguni tribes in what is now South Africa were all bluster and…
ADF STAFF It was just before midnight at the end of a long election day in 2000, and Lamine Cissé,…
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.…