Some suffered inhumane physical punishments such as floggings, were denied home leave and were banned from taking command positions. It is an absolute scandal. We do not think of the first shot fired by a British soldier, Regimental Sergeant-Major Alhaji Grunshi of the Gold Coast, during the Anglo-French invasion of Togoland (now Togo), which was then a German colony. 'This has not been a secret,' he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. By the time the war had ended, the British Army in East Africa was largely made up of troops from Nigeria, the Gold Coast (which is now Ghana), Sierra Leone, Kenya, Uganda and Nyasaland (now Malawi).
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