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Note to moderator: Read the answerline carefully. Note to players: Specific term required. These people, whose oral history was collected in Memoirs of the Maelstrom, wrote contrasting accounts in Strength and Goodness and The Rape of a Country. A caricature of these people advertised the cocoa drink Banania (“ban-ann-YAH”) at a 1931 expo. These people, whose survivors won pensions in 2023, spoke the forofifon (10[1])naspa jargon. These people, who suppressed the Somba, Bélédougou (“bay-lay-doo-GOO”), and Bani revolts, were denied back-pay and killed in the 1944 Thiaroye (10[2])(“tyar-WAH”) massacre. Mosques like Missiri served these people’s winter camps during hivernage (“ee-vair-NAZH”). The “blood tax” killed over 30,000 of these people, including many malgaches (“mall-GOSH”) and Somalis, under Robert Nivelle (“ro-BAIR nee-VELL”). The (-5[1])“Black Horror on the Rhine” (10[1])demonized (-5[1])these soldiers, (-5[2])whom (-5[1])Blaise (-5[1])Diagne (-5[1])(“blayz dee-YAN”) recruited (10[1])as shock troops (10[1])alongside (10[2]-5[1])Maghrebi (-5[1])spahi (“spah-YEE”) cavalry in World War I. For 10 points, name these riflemen from French colonies (10[1]-5[1])like Senegal. ■END■ (10[2]0[12])

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