Only people born in the Four Communes of this colony were able to attain citizenship in its ruling country.
Due to atrocities like hanging people alive to be eaten by animals and roasting children, a military unit traveling across this colony in 1898-1899 was labeled an "infernal column". Soldiers named after a portion of this colony were the fathers of the 16,000-18,000 "Rhineland Bastards". Only people born in the Four Communes of this colony were able to attain citizenship in its ruling country. The starting point of the Voulet-Chanoine Mission, most of the territorial expansion of this colony was done to forward the trade interests of the Maurel &amp; Prom Company and was carried out by (*) Louis Faidherbe. After the dissolution of this colony, leaders like FÃ©lix HouphouÃ«t-Boigny and LÃ©opold Senghor, among others, took power in the newly formed states. For 10 points, this was what colony, now split into 9 countries including Mauritania, Niger, and Mali?
Due to atrocities like hanging people alive to be eaten by animals and roasting children, a military unit traveling across this colony in 1898-1899 was labeled an "infernal column".
French West Africa (accept Afrique Occidentale FranÃ§aise or AOF; prompt on component colonies/their modern equivalents: Mali (French Sudan), Senegal, Guinea (French Guinea), Niger, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso (Upper Volta), Togo, Benin (Dahomey), or Mauritania)