Bethwell A Ogot, University of Nairobi, Kenya.

• INTRODUCTION 1 SUCCESSION WARS IN THE PRE-COLONIAL KINGDOM OF NKORE 2 THE CIVIL WAR IN USUKU 3 THE VIOLENCE OF TEWODROS 4 WAR AND LAND IN RHODESIA IN THE 1890s 5 PARTICIPATION IN THE 'BOER WAR' 6 AFRICAN METHODS OF WARFARE DURING THE MAJI MAJI WAR, 1905-1907 7 MUMBOISM-AN ANTI-COLONIAL MOVEMENT 8 THE KYANYANGIRE, 1907: PASSIVE REVOLT AGAINST BRITISH OVERRULE 9 THE GIRIAMA WAR, 1914-1915 10 MBIRU