Diallo, Bakary (1892-1978). The only literary work of this Senegalese ex-serviceman, Force-Bonté (1926), is an account of his experiences in World War I. A herdsman before joining the colonial army, Diallo, who was self-educated, wrote his account with the aid of French friends. Although the victim of a number of injustices, Diallo is an ardent apologist for colonialism. Force-Bonté, republished in 1985, is seen by some literary historians as the forerunner of the francophone African novel.
[Firinne Ni Chréach´in]
