Narrator: In the 1950s and 60s, many colonised countries that were part of the British Empire gained their independence ... to fight for Britain in World War Two, was one of many African colonies ...

In the 1950s and 60s, her mother, the late Andrée Blouin, threw herself into the fight ... independence leader, Fulbert Youlou. But counselling was not all Blouin had to offer this fast-changing ...

but were fighting for the principle of freedom. How does that resound with you? A: If we ask why did enslaved and free African Americans participate in the war for American Independence ...