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Article: Memoirs of the Maelstrom: A Senegalese Oral History of the First World War.(Review)
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- June 22, 2001
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Memoirs of the Maelstrom: A Senegalese Oral History of the First World War. By Joe Lunn. (Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann/Oxford: James Curry/Cape Town: David Philip, 1999. Pp. xiv, 264. $25.00.)
Focusing on personal experiences of the Senegalese people, this work addresses the circumstances involved in one of the great and tragic ironies of the colonial era in Africa. When England and France went to war against Germany in 1914, thousands of young African men from among the subjugated peoples were obliged to fight for their conquerors against Germany. The physical impact of the World War I experience on Senegalese life, like many other aspects of the imperial era, can ...