France has handed over control to the Senegalese government of two military bases in Senegal’s capital, Dakar that it has ...

In response, colonial soldiers fired on them, killing an undetermined number. French authorities at the time tried to bury the evidence and claimed 35 people were killed. However, scholars ...

A military cemetery near Lyon, where nearly 200 West African soldiers who fought for France in World War II are buried, has reopened after being desecrated earlier this year – and despite ongoing ...

had been protesting delays in salaries and poor living conditions when colonial soldiers fired on them. French President Emmanuel Macron admitted in a letter to Faye last year that France had comm ...

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.

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 ...