At the age of 104, William Masindi Sadiki still has many stories to tell. Some of these are about his experiences during World War II, when he was part of the North Africa campaign. He is one of the few black soldiers from that era still alive, and he proudly pins his war medals on his chest on formal occasions.
There has never been much recognition for the role that members of the South African Native Military Corps (NMC) played during this war. In Sadiki's case, that does not seem to...