IDKMYDE: The African Soldiers Who Helped Win WWII
The Breakfast Club
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
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🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Over a million African soldiers fought in World War II—their contributions largely
erased from the history books.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.4 | The African soldiers who helped win World War II. |
| 0:09.1 | Africa. |
| 0:10.4 | I didn't know. |
| 0:11.9 | Welcome back, No Adols, to another episode of the most anticipated podcast on the Black |
| 0:18.3 | Effect podcast network, especially in February. |
| 0:22.8 | Entitled, I didn't know. |
| 0:24.8 | Maybe you didn't either. |
| 0:26.1 | I'm your charismatic, very attractive, six foot two, 180 pound cut up like a bag of dope host. |
| 0:33.5 | Beed it. |
| 0:34.4 | And yes, I look like a Greek god in the nude. |
| 0:38.8 | But that's neither here, no there. We've got two more destinations this week. |
| 0:43.0 | So grab that digital passport, because today we headed to the motherland. |
| 0:48.3 | Africa. Oh, yeah, you're getting stamps this week. |
| 0:51.6 | Because if your World War II history only includes Europe and America, |
| 0:56.2 | well, that's not history. That's editing. But before we get into that, I have to give you |
| 1:01.6 | three of the most useless facts you'll never need, never ever, not a day in life. Up first, |
| 1:08.4 | over one million African soldiers fought in World War II. |
| 1:13.4 | Your second useless fact, they served in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, not just Africa. |
| 1:20.8 | And your third useless fact, most of them came home to colonial rule anyways. So yeah, |
| 1:27.1 | let's talk about that. |
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