African political elites have been forthcoming with military support for United Nations peacekeeping missions, contributing substantially to these missions’ workforce. Despite their contribution, most studies on peacekeeping omit the African soldier’s voice on his experiences of the African war theatre. This article features Ghanaian soldiers’ narratives based on their peacekeeping deployments and illuminates how Ghanaian peacekeepers connect their experiences to their home society. In this contribution, I illustrate how Ghanaian soldiers’ narratives about peacekeeping experiences are framed as deterring examples for their home society, thus potentially impacting their actions and behaviours. Based on long-term qualitative research embedded with the Ghanaian military, drawing from interviews and informal conversations with peacekeeping veterans and serving military operatives, it is argued that Ghanaian soldiers’ narratives of peacekeeping experiences and the collective processes through which these narratives gain currency in the barracks and beyond are informed by introspection in the post-peacekeeping deployment phase.

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作为加纳军营内省的触发因素的维和经验

非洲政治精英一直在为联合国维和特派团提供军事支持，为这些特派团的工作人员做出了重大贡献。尽管他们做出了贡献，但大多数关于维和的研究都忽略了非洲士兵对非洲战场经历的看法。这篇文章以加纳士兵的维和部署为基础，阐述了加纳维和人员如何将他们的经历与他们的家乡社会联系起来。在这篇文章中，我说明了加纳士兵关于维和经历的叙述如何被塑造成对其家乡社会具有威慑力的例子，从而可能影响他们的行动和行为。基于加纳军方的长期定性研究，