Leopold Senghor talking in August 1946. SOLDIER'S POINT OF VIEW "I got into the French army during the colonial period...and first I was a private, then I became a sergeant in the army after four ...
The West African country announced that it would leave the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie. It comes after the ...
The 171st anniversary of the French colonization of New Caledonia ... honking car horns to the sounds of the French national anthem, La Marseillaise, and other patriotic songs, blasting from ...
The massacre at Thiaroye took place on 1 December, 1944, when French colonial troops opened fire on West African soldiers who had just returned from Europe, where they had been fighting for France.