Source: Atlas Obscura
During the French-Indochina war, France sent more than 50,000 West African soldiers—recruited from various colonies—to what is now Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. So many of these soldiers were Senegalese that the corps became known as tirailleurs sénégalais (“Senegalese riflemen”).
Vietnamese liberation forces (then known as Viet Minh) defeated France in 1954. But before the war’s end, some Senegalese soldiers had met their wives in Vietnam. According to some reports, roughly 100 of these brides are thought to have accompanied their husbands to Senegal. Soldiers earned a…
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