Football team made up of conscripted African drivers serving with the King's African Rifles, Kenya, 1939

Photograph, World War Two, East Africa, 1939.

During World War Two, the British officially recruited African soldiers on a volunteer basis and used chiefs as the main recruiting agents. Recent research, however, has shown that at times a considerable amount of pressure was used to 'persuade' Africans to volunteer.

From an album of 608 photographs compiled by Colin Campbell of the King's African Rifles.