#WW1 #WW2 #WorldWars #African Soldiers
This video is giving credit and recognition to the Gambian and other West Africans who served and died fighting in WW1 & WW2 on the side of the British, yet have been forgotten and left out of the British curriculum. Airbrushed out of history.
In Britain WW1 & WW2 are a very important part of British life… on an annual basis, until this day, they commemorate and remember ‘their boys’ who died in the World Wars.
These events are so important they’re attended by the queen herself and is enshrined in the UK National Curriculum, war scenes played out in countless movies, documentaries, books, reports etc. but nowhere, when I was in school were we taught about the extent to which it was the superior African fighting skills and abilities who, fought at the front line of WW1 & WW2 via their special Royal West African Frontier Force, so successful it was expanded for WW2. The RWAFF, had become a famous unit in the two World Wars. Little did we know that it was their fighting, in operations at the front line of the war, that led to the surrender of the German forces.
This is an unpaid debt. These brave West Africans helped to win their and ought to be getting at least an annual thank you and reparations payments to their descendants, up until today?
Also the gift of unlimited trips to visit the country their forefathers fought and died fighting for?
So today, let’s get in to the history and pay tribute to some of our West African men and Women who served and died in their hundreds of thousands, fighting in the European World Wars.
