No Insignificant Part book cover

No Insignificant Part: The Rhodesia Native Regiment and the East Africa Campaign of the First World War is the first history of the only primarily African military unit from Zimbabwe to fight in the First World War. Although it remained in the field longer than all-white units and some of its members received some of Britain’s highest decorations, the regiment was quickly disbanded after the war and forgotten by the colonial establishment. For the cover design we used a black and white photo of the regiment in positive and negative to symbolize the conflict between black infantry soldiers and their white commanders during the First World War. No Insignificant Part is published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press.