Historian of law and militarism in the 20th century. Associate Professor of History, the University of Chicago. Cover image: Chéri Samba, Le pardon libéré, 2015
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18 Sep 2024
Why did so many African countries become military dictatorships in the twentieth century? Militarism promised a utopia, and to some people it still does. Read Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire for free here: doi.org/10.1215/978147805982…
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21 Jan 2025
In the new Strategy Bridge Podcast episode I talk with Samuel Fury Childs Daly about military dictatorships and the ideology of militarism in Nigeria and other former British colonies. Daly is the author of “Soldier’s Paradise.” Listen here: traffic.libsyn.com/secure/th…
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19 Dec 2024
‘In Africa, the conservative realism of the military mind met the liberatory spirit of the decolonising mind’—Read an excerpt from Soldier’s Paradise by Samuel Fury Childs Daly johannesburgreviewofbooks.co… via @joburgreview
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Samuel Fury Childs Daly retweeted
4 Dec 2024
Militarism is Rising Back to the Surface in #Africa. What Do We Know About Its Past in the Continent?
No military dictatorship succeeded in making the martial utopia that soldiers promised.
@sfcdaly✍️
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22 Nov 2024
RT @e_prosperetti: Had a lot of fun talking to @sfcdaly about his new book, soldier’s paradise. Even got a garibaldi reference in!
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18 Sep 2024
Why did so many African countries become military dictatorships in the twentieth century? Militarism promised a utopia, and to some people it still does. Read Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire for free here: doi.org/10.1215/978147805982…
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18 Sep 2024
Contact me if you'd like to teach it, review it, or hear more. I'm available to speak to seminars, classes, and anybody who wants to take me to task.
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24 Jul 2024
Coming this October, free online to everybody through open access. You can also order a paper copy. dukeupress.edu/soldiers-para…
24 Jul 2024
"Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa after Empire" by @sfcdaly tells the story of how Africa’s military dictators tried and failed to transform their societies into martial utopias. Read the introduction now on our website. ow.ly/m8oN50SJcEl #PostcolonialStudies
ALT Cover of Soldier's Paradise: Militarism in Africa after Empire by Samuel Fury Childs Daly. Cover features a photograph of four uniformed African soldiers. Two of the soldiers are standing on the hood of a car. One speaks into a microphone; the other holds a rifle. Below them, one man looks straight at the camera, a fierce expression on his face.
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Samuel Fury Childs Daly retweeted
23 Sep 2022
Idi Amin writes to Queen Elizabeth, 2 June 1978, on the occasion of her Silver Jubilee.
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23 Sep 2022
Extremely fascinating thread! I didn't know that "420" had the same valence in India that "419" has in Nigeria.
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23 Sep 2022
419 is still a huge part of Nigerian popular culture, even though its actual incidence has started to fade
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23 Sep 2022
Thanks to @mjsharafi for this fantastic thread (and for bringing to light the amazing 2000s fashion of Charso Bees)
7 Sep 2022
Oh wow, thank you so much to @ASAUK_News for this wonderful honor! I'm so grateful to the Fage & Oliver Prize committee - I know these are a huge amount of work. I'm sorry I couldn't be with you in Liverpool this year, but I was there in spirit!
7 Sep 2022
Congratulations to Samuel Fury Childs Daly @sfcdaly for winning the ASAUK best academic monograph prize.
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7 Sep 2022
Big ups also to Ray Bush and Simeon Koroma, and to Cheikh Anta Babou, Emily Bridger, and Lynn Thomas!
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1 Aug 2022
Briefly returning from a Twitter hiatus to share a new article on Ghana and Nigeria's mass expulsions from the 1960s to the 1980s, now out in Past & Present academic.oup.com/past/advanc…
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Samuel Fury Childs Daly retweeted
23 Apr 2022
While I wish this work didn't have to be made, I am really excited for the screening of 'H is for Hostile Environment' at Rio Cinema on 11 May! Thanks to the amazing @edwinmingard and the many artistic collaborators who made this possible. Tickets at riocinema.org.uk
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20 Apr 2022
Adewale Maja-Pearce, The Kingmaker newleftreview.org/sidecar/po… via @newleftreview
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