Africa's Silent Sacrifice in World War II

They call it a “campaign,” but Africans remember it as something darker. Between 1940 and

1943, North Africa became a battlefield for empires fighting a war that was never

ours. The sands of Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco,

and Algeria—lands of ancient kingdoms and desert civilizations—were turned into graves by nations oceans

away. Imagine this: entire villages waking up to skies filled with planes they

didn’t recognize. Bombs falling on people who didn’t even know why the war had begun.

Families torn apart, not because of tribal conflict, not because of famine, but because Europe

brought its fire to African soil. Young African men were forced—yes, forced—to fight