Over 200,000 West Africans were mobilized in World War I, with 30,000 killed

Evidence

When war broke out, Africans recruited by voie d’ appel gradually rose from 4 percent to more than IO percent of the adult male population. It is estimated that 2oo,ooo Africans were eventually mobilized between 1912 and 1919, and that 30,ooo to 31,ooo lost their lives. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 496

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