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Memoirs of the Maelstrom: A Senegalese Oral History of the First World War
by
Joe Lunn
Between 1914 and 1918, the French recruited over 140,000 West Africans who fought on the Western front. Based on personal testimonies of war veterans and archival research, this book describes how the experience altered African soldiers' views of themselves, their societies, and the French. North America: Heinemann
Paperback, 280 pages
Published
January 1st 1999
by James Currey
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Ideally, I would have read this book as part of my fantasy book group with Charles Mills, where we would have discussed - for example - the epistemological underpinnings of the experiences Senegalese soldiers, their relationship with the French colons, how the racial contract fit in to this . . . what the hell was up with Lunn's use of quotation marks. (And by this point, Charles Mills would either realize we need to be married, or that he needs to get away from me very quickly.)
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