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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The ruler of what is now Angola fought her would-be conquerors for decades ADF STAFF Southwest Africa never had a stronger…
He acted from his heart ADF STAFF In 1994, after the assassination of the president of Rwanda, soldiers of the presidential…
ADF STAFF In November 1922, Teferi Mekonen, an Ethiopian nobleman, visited a British Royal Air Force show in Yemen’s coastal…
Jubo Jubogha started out as a slave and ended up a king in what is now southern Nigeria. Along the…
ADF STAFF King Tenkamenin ruled the Kingdom of Ghana with style. He insisted on good etiquette. His airy, windowed court…
Samori Touré was a great warrior, a natural leader and an empire builder. But he is perhaps best remembered, and…
When Emperor Tewodros II came to power in Ethiopia in 1855, the country had been fragmented for nearly a century.…
In the short history of Burkina Faso, one name towers above the rest: Thomas Sankara. Born into a working-class Catholic…
ADF STAFF Abebe Bikila’s run to international fame started by accident. Abebe had wanted to run the marathon for Ethiopia…
Léopold Sédar Senghor was an intellectual, a writer, a scholar, a statesman and the first president of Senegal. He wrote…