This essay examines the imbrication of colonial and regional histories in France, using as a case study the 2012 novel The Black Terrorist. This novel by Tierno Monémembo was inspired by the real story of warrant officer Addi Bâ, a sharpshooter from Guinea who was wounded in the Ardennes in 1940, joined the Resistance in the Vosges region, and was ultimately arrested and executed by the Gestapo in Lorraine in 1943. While revisiting the figure of the colonial sharpshooter, already widely present in literature, T. Monénembo does more than inscribe the memory of a resistant from Africa within WWII history. In the process, his unique gesture maps a new geography of African presence in France, beyond Paris, and invites readers to acknowledge the historical relevance of the « postcolonial provinces ».