African Colonial Soldiers between Memory and Forgetfulness : The Case of Post-Colonial Senegal

Ginio, Ruth

doi:10.3406/outre.2006.4195

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“…This is especially the task of the Armed Forces Museum. The idea of an army museum emerged in the 1980s (Ginio 2006: 146). For museum officials, the aim was less to write a history of the corps of tirailleurs , or a narrative of the modern Senegalese army, than to trace the odyssey of the combatants over the longue durée 30 .…”

Section: The Gradual Establishment Of the Figure Of The Tirailleurmentioning

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African colonial soldiers, memories and imagining migration in Senegal in the twenty-first century

Mourre¹

2018

Africa

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This article is an attempt to reconsider the representations that, in Senegal in the 2000s, linked the social history of the tirailleurs (African colonial soldiers) with the practical and symbolic processes at the heart of a number of migratory projects, especially among young people. The history of this social military body was rooted in almost a century of colonial domination, from 1857 to 1962. The tirailleurs played a part in all the battles of the French army and generated different kinds of social imaginaries that were woven between France and Africa. In the late 1950s, another figure, another ideal type, became established in the Senegalese public space: the migrant. After tracing the history of the way in which these two figures were constructed, I trace how, more recently, the younger generation has been able to mobilize the dominant memory of the tirailleur in its own aspirations of exile. Some preliminary methodological proposals will be needed to account for these migratory imaginaries.

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Section: The Gradual Establishment Of the Figure Of The Tirailleurmentioning

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African colonial soldiers, memories and imagining migration in Senegal in the twenty-first century

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2018

Africa

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French African Soldiers in World War II

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2012

A Companion to World War II

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French Colonial Soldiers in German Captivity during World War II

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2014

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This book discusses the experience of nearly 100,000 French colonial prisoners of war captured by Nazi Germany during World War II. Raffael Scheck shows that the German treatment of French colonial soldiers improved dramatically after initial abuses, leading the French authorities in 1945 to believe that there was a possible German plot to instigate a rebellion in the French empire. Scheck illustrates that the colonial prisoners' contradictory experiences with French authorities, French civilians, and German guards created strong demands for equal rights at the end of the war, leading to clashes with a colonial administration eager to reintegrate them into a discriminatory routine.

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African Colonial Soldiers between Memory and Forgetfulness : The Case of Post-Colonial Senegal

Cited by 11 publications

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African colonial soldiers, memories and imagining migration in Senegal in the twenty-first century

African colonial soldiers, memories and imagining migration in Senegal in the twenty-first century

French African Soldiers in World War II

French Colonial Soldiers in German Captivity during World War II

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