How colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war by Pankaj Mishra (The Guardian), 10 November 2018
… France enlisted nearly 500,000 troops from its colonies in Africa and Indochina. Nearly 400,000 African Americans were … Asia to the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, and even the South Pacific islands. In Mesopotamia, Indian soldiers formed … ever and ever”. For example, the German colonisation of south-west Africa, which was meant to solve the problem of …