 Ramba uchinyora ndima iyi - Sezvo hondo yakawedzera, miganhu yezvematongerwo enyika uye hukama muWest Africa zvaive zvichichinja uye zvisina chokwadi. France yakapa kuGermany, ichisaina Armistice yaJune 22, 1940, nepo Winston Churchill naJean Monnet vakanga vafunga nezvokusikwa kwehurumende imwe chete yeFrance neBritain, ichibatanidza marudzi maviri. Basa rokurwisa muAfrica rakawedzera, neBritain nemakoroni ayo omuAfrica vachipa rutsigiro kusangano raCharles de Gaulle reFree France muchimiro chemari, kutaurirana, zvinhu, ndege, uye zvimwe zvinhu, nechinangwa chokudzivirira miganhu yeNigeria. Kunyange zvazvo nharaunda yeFrench West Africa yaitongwa neVichy yaityisidzira muganhu wekuchamhembe kweNigeria, de Gaulle akawana kutonga kweChad nechiteshi cheLibreville, Gabon muna Nyamavhuvhu neCameroon munaGunyana. Oke akasimbisa rutsigiro rweBritain kuna de Gaulle uye kukosha kweBathurst The Gambia kuFree France paakagamuchira nhume yeVashandi veFree French avo vakange varambidzwa ikoko kutanga kwaNyamavhuvhu. Clyde, chikepe chinobhururuka cheShort Empire S.30 chaifambiswa nevakuru vakuru, chakanga chakakuvadzwa pakusimuka kubva kuLisbon, Portugal uye chakanga chichigadziriswa muBathurst. Nhume dzacho dzakaenda kuLeopoldville, kuCongo ndokukurukura nevakuru vakuru veFrance kubva kuBrazzaville mukuedza kuvanyengetedza kuti vabatane neFree France. Mafungiro enharaunda akawedzera kusimbiswa munaGunyana 1940 nekutadza kwaDe Gaulle kuchengetedza chiteshi cheFrance cheWest Africa panguva yeHondo yeDakar., asi vakaungana naOctober paakazivisa Brazzaville, Congo, seguta guru reFree France. Ndege dzeAllied ipapo dzaigona kushandisa nzira yokubuda nayo kumabvazuva kuenda kumadokero ichipfuura neChad, ichibatanidza Nigeria neEgypt. Makoloni eBritish, uye Nigeria kunyanya, aive munzvimbo yakanaka yekubatsirwa mune zvehupfumi kubva mukutengeserana kutsva neFrench Equatorial Africa, iyo yaive yakatemwa kutengeserana nenzvimbo dzeVichy-dzinotongwa neWest Africa. 