He is Senegalese and French, with nothing to reconcile

As a child, the Senegalese French author David Diop was used to seeing soldiers not unlike Alfa Ndiaye, the narrator of his novel “At Night All Blood Is Black.” In Senegal, men who had fought for France in the two world wars often took part in national parades, yet when Diop started reading letters by French soldiers, infantrymen from colonised African countries were nowhere to be found.

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