Cinéma/TV
Through the magic of cinema, History sheds the coldness of the historian’s pen, taking on an immediacy which gives it sensitivity. African filmmakers often use the character of the Tirailleur to evoke relations with the West. Hence, in Toubab bi (Moussa Touré, Senegal, 1992), the Tirailleur is a caricatural figure, who waxes lyrical about the harshness of the war, but who is proud to have fought in it. Torn between military pride, and the ingratitude of the torturer who forced him to wage war in the land of coldness and death, he illustrates the ambiguity of the relation with the…