We’re fighting against “illegals”.
This is a small business owner. He didn’t have to show them his documents, but he did, he kept reiterating its validity, yet, they made him close his shop & beat him.
This is not fighting illegals, you hate your people
These men were the Senegalese Tirailleurs—African soldiers recruited from across France's West African colonies, including present-day Senegal, Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, and Niger.
When Nazi Germany invaded France in 1940, they fought and died defending a country that was not their own.
Thousands served on the front lines, facing the same artillery, machine guns, and tanks as their white comrades.
Many were captured by the Nazis and endured years of imprisonment under brutal conditions.
But for many survivors, the greatest betrayal came not from Germany, but from the very nation they had fought to defend — France !
After the war, African veterans returned expecting the pay, pensions, and respect promised to them for their service.
Instead, they encountered discrimination, delayed wages, and unequal treatment.
On 1 December 1944, a group of demobilized Tirailleurs at the Thiaroye military camp near Dakar protested over unpaid salaries and benefits.
French colonial forces opened fire on them, killing 500+ veterans. Historians are convinced that the true death toll was likely much higher than this.
They fought for France against fascism, survived Nazi captivity, and came home only to be met with bullets from the French colonial state.
It did not end there. In 1945, 34 of the Senegalese veterans, who were thought to be the instigators of the protest, were tried and given sentences of upto ten years.
They were later pardoned as French President Vincent Auriol visited Senegal in March 1947, but they were not exonerated, and their widows were never awarded the veteran pensions usually granted to widows of fallen soldiers.
The Thiaroye massacre is not taught in schools in France, and a Senegalese film about the massacre released in 1988, Camp de Thiaroye, was both banned in France and censored in Senegal.
The last time I was in Lagos I paid to enter a beach in Lekki.
Not a resort. Not a water park. A beach.
Sand. Water. A coastline that existed long before any of us were born.
Someone bought it. Fenced it. Put a gate on it. Now you pay to touch the ocean.
What kind of government sells its people access to nature?
Happy Democracy Day. 🇳🇬
Good news: Dr. Iheukwumere Ikechukwu of the Department of Microbiology at COOU has been sacked by the Governing Council of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University.
He sexually abused students and engaged in different forms of misconduct.
Four other academic staff members were also sacked, including two professors.
We are restoring integrity in our universities, which will in turn improve the quality of our graduates.
Swedish man: “My son has been robbed 3 times. Twice by Somalis, once by Arabs. He’s 19 and marked for life. He doesn’t dare to go out on his own.”
Sweden had to lower the age of criminal responsibility to 13 due to migrant violence and organized crime.