Britain and France took the lion’s share of the colonies, which explains linguistically why Africa is majorly divided into two: Anglophone and Francophone. French is an official language in at ...

Discover the Senegalese Tirailleurs, African skirmishers who served in the French army during World War II. Recruited from across West Africa, they carried the hopes of nations and earned their ...

AFRICA AND FRANCE Britain was never invaded by the Germans. But France was occupied in 1942. There was a Free French government in exile led by Charles De Gaulle. African colonies had to choose ...

Africa and World War II will prove of great value to serious scholars of Africa, while individual essays may be of value for those with narrower interests, such as the Free French movement, and, ...

The massacre at Thiaroye took place on 1 December, 1944, when French colonial troops opened ... tactics and the operations once carried out in Africa. "During my research, I made the connection ...

Men brought over from the French colonies in North Africa and West Africa to fight and to die for France, the nation that had taken over their own countries by military force in the 19th century.