Upper Volta colony.
In the last century, Britain, France, and Germany had fiercely contested the Upper Volta region. In the end, the French government had played a better hand and gained control of this core inland region of West Africa, placing it directly under the French Governor-General in West Africa.
Because it lay upstream on the Volta River, it was called the Upper Volta region.
The Volta River was the second-largest river in West Africa, flowing mainly through countries and regions such as Burkina Faso (Upper Volta), Ghana, Togo, and Benin in the previous life. The Volta Reservoir, located within Ghana in the previous life, was the world's largest artificial lake, twice the size of Qinghai Lake, the Far East Empire's largest lake. Now, most of Ghana belonged to Britain's Gold Coast colony.
Britain's Gold Coast, France's Upper Volta and Dahomey colonies, and Portuguese Ouidah to the east were all neighbors of the present East African Togoland colony. This showed just how fierce the struggle for West African colonies had once been.
The tenacious little Portuguese Ouidah had weathered the hardest days of the last century and was one of Portugal's few remaining colonial holdings in Africa.
And now, East Africa had replaced Germany as Togoland's new master and was bound to give its old brothers Britain and France an eye-opening lesson.
Within Togoland, a vast army of migrants had already packed up and stood ready to depart.
At dawn, the bugle sounded.
The black slaves in the Lomé concentration camp reflexively climbed up from their straw mats.
This was a habit they had developed while working as laborers in East Africa. East Africa had always imposed comprehensive military-style management on black slaves, so upon hearing the wake-up call from the Lomé naval base, these inwardly terrified black slaves had