The great Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembene made a movie about the Thiaroye massacre committed by French forces in Senegal during the night of 30 November – 1 December 1944! The movie, Camp de Thiaroye, was made in 1988. It took almost 20 years for a French president, Francois Hollande in 2012, to acknowledge it. A massacre which occurred because the Tirailleurs Senegalais asked to be given the pay they had been promised for services rendered, defending France in France against Hitler’s Nazi forces. Those Senegalese men were killed by French men for asking to be paid after defending France with their lives!
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I wasn’t aware that it took that long for any French president to acknowledge that massacre. Unbelievable. I’m proud of Ousmane Sebene for daring to make a movie like this and it could’ve only been made by a Senegalese person much less an African on the continent.
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