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 ...

Senegal has commemorated the 80th anniversary of a colonial-era massacre of African soldiers who fought for France during World War II and were shot by French soldiers in 1944 for demanding fair ...

In response, the French army mobilized some 10,000 men, aircraft and warships, and received support from militia groups. These colonial forces engaged in a brutal and massive campaign of ...

Eighty years ago this week, as jubilant crowds in Europe celebrated the defeat of Nazi Germany, French forces launched a ...

France began withdrawing soldiers from Chad on Friday, Chad’s defence ministry said, after N’Djamena last month abruptly ended military cooperation with the former colonial power. A contingent ...

What’s unusual about this statue is that the soldiers it commemorates are Africans ... were one of those peoples that the French colonial theorists had decided were a naturally warrior people ...

British films that tackle the colonial empire are legion but often take the point of view of the coloniser. In that regard, the recent French additions offer a breath of fresh air. In No Chains No ...

Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s remarks came in an address to the nation on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the May 8, 1945 massacres committed by the French colonial authorities in which 45,000 ...

Based on archival research in 17 archives across 5 countries, Hostages of Empire examines the experiences of the 85,000 soldiers from across the French Empire who were captured by the German army in ...