Memoirs of the Maelstrom: A Senegalese Oral History of the First World War"Between 1914 and 1918, the French army recruited over 140,000 West Africans who served as combatants on the Western Front. Wartime recruitment had profound implications for African as well as French society. Focusing on Senegal, Lunn provides a unique perspective for assessing the range of the war's impact on West Africans. Based on the testimony of 85 African witnesses or veterans of the First World War and the extensive archival research, Lunn's book offers novel insights into the nature of the prewar colonial order, the conduct of colonial recruitment drives and their impact on Africans, the soldiers' service overseas, and how the experience altered many African soldiers' previous attitudes about themselves, their societies, and the French. This work also is a significant contribution to the study of the changing character of Franco-African relations during the colonial era, using the crucial watershed of the First World War as a frame of reference."--Back cover. |
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Conscription | 59 |
From Kayor to the Côte dAzur | 91 |
The Senegalese in the Trenches | 120 |
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Abdou Karim Gaye Abdoulaye Gueye Abdoulaye Ndiaye Affaires militaires Affaires politiques African soldiers African troops Alassane Kane Aliou Diakhate Amar Seck ANOM Archives Biram Mbodji Tine Blaise Diagne Boubacar Gueye Casamance casualties CERCLE Charles Mangin civilians Colonial Army coloniale combat commanders communards conscription contacts Coumba Daba Dembele Dakar Demba Mboup despite Diagne's Diourbel Doudou Ndao enlisted European fighting Française France French West Africa Galaye Gueye Général Ibrahima Camara indigénat indigène interviewed Ishmale Mbange l'Afrique Louga Malal Gassala Mamadou Djigo Mangin Masserigne Soumare Mbange Mbaye Khary Diagne métis metropolitan military Momar Candji Moreover Mouride Nar Diouf Ndao Ndiaga Niang Nevertheless Niaki Gueye noire Nouma Ndiaye officers originaires Ousmane Diagne Paris percent political population postwar precolonial prewar recruitment Recrutement indigène Rufisque Samba Senegal Senegambia Sera Ndiaye social Souleye Samba Ndiaye Thiecouta Diallo Thiès tion Tirailleurs Sénégalais Tivaouane Tubab Unités veterans village wartime West African Wolof Yoro Diaw