[lqclamar]

Of course, the French could have focused their recruitment efforts in Muslim areas, right?

Less than 1% of the entire population of Gabon is an awfully small pool to draw from. It would be comparable to the US today focusing its recruitment efforts only on Indian reservations. I doubt that even the French are that stupid.

[zimdog]

Less than 1% of the entire population of Gabon is an awfully small pool to draw from.

Of course, Gabon did not constitute the entirety of French Equitorial Africa. You know that, but you're being dishonest again.