Discover The Dark Legacy of French Colonialism. how horrible were the things they did in africa? First lets look at the north. France's 1960 nuclear tests in Algeria exposed 24,000 people to radiation, with French goverment hiding the full impact and locations of nuclear waste.
Moving on, in the Early 20th-century French explorers used slave labor in Chad, and Congo, taking cues from Belgium's brutal Congo rule for profit. France also aimed to erase local cultures and identities through colonization. After a 1871 revolt, 2,000 Algerians were exiled to New Caledonia to lose their cultural ties, with many descendants unaware of their roots, and isolated from their families.

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