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 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 (“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 “Black Horror on the Rhine” demonized these soldiers, whom Blaise Diagne (“blayz dee-YAN”) recruited as shock troops alongside Maghrebi spahi (“spah-YEE”) cavalry in World War I. For 10 points, name these riflemen from French colonies like Senegal. ■END■
ANSWER: tirailleurs (“tee-rah-YURR”) [accept tirailleurs from specific French colonies, like Senegalese tirailleurs; accept turcos or français-tiraillou; prompt on riflemen, sharpshooters, skirmishers, African army, Armée d’Afrique, troupes indigènes, indigenous troops, Armée Coloniale, colonial soldiers, harkis, zouaves, troupes de marine, or synonyms of any; reject “ascaris” or “spahis”] (Clues include Bakary Diallo, Lamine Senghor, the Paris Colonial Exposition, and the petit nègre jargon.)
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