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 ...

It now threatens coastal West African states such as Benin and Ghana. Today, 86% of the territory of Burkina Faso is affected ...

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.