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- This was largely because French army commanders viewed West Africans as an elite fighting force among the 500,000 colonial subjects (from Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Madagascar, and Indochina) who fought for France during the war, and so deployed tirailleurs sénégalais most often as attacking “shock troops.”
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The tirailleurs sénégalais (Senegalese riflemen) figured prominently among the many indigenous peoples who served in the French army during the First World War. By 1918, France had recruited some 192,000 tirailleurs sénégalais throughout French West Africa, 134,000 of them fought in Europe, and 30,000 of them lost their lives.
Because it seriously disrupted economic links between Senegal and France, World War I marked the end of Senegal’s most dynamic period of economic growth, which had begun in the late nineteenth century with a marked increase in peanut production and export. Even with increased migration to the peanut basin, the production of peanuts dropped ...
The first Senegalese Tirailleurs were formed in 1857 and served France in a number of wars, including World War I (providing around 200,000 troops, more than 135,000 of whom fought in Europe and 30,000 of whom were killed) and World War II (recruiting 179,000 troops, 40,000 deployed to Western Europe).
Another reason the Germans despised the Senegalese was that they had taken part in the Allied occupation of the Rhineland in the years after World War I. After the Nazis came to power in 1933, they trumpeted false propaganda claims that the Senegalese had committed widespread rapes on German women.
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Nov 1, 2020 · Modest memorials and a small museum in Senegal remember the men who left their homeland to fight in a far-away war. Some never came back, but rather settled in France. The World War I of Diop’s At Night All Blood Is Black is much too messy, morally and physically, to allow for heroes.
Mar 18, 2015 · In December 1944, between 35 and 70 tirailleurs sénégalais – colonial troops from French West Africa – were killed at a demobilisation camp in Thiaroye, just outside Dakar in Senegal. These ...
He is presently at work on African Voices from the Great War: An Anthology of Senegalese Soldiers' Life Histories, which will further explore the First World War's impact on the lives of West African veterans and assess how the Senegalese collective memory of their wartime sacrifices on behalf of France has been transmitted and transmuted