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This article offers an analysis of the representation of  tirailleurs sénégalais  in  At Night All Blood is Black (Frère d’âme) , a First World War novel published in 2018 to considerable critical acclaim by David Diop. I show how Diop invokes and at the same time undermines stereotypes of African ferociousness. His  tirailleur  protagonist becomes an unwilling witness to European barbarity, as the war causes a radical questioning of the colonial order. By focusing on the figure of the dëmm, I offer a ‘decolonized’ approach to First World War trauma and address excess and ambiguity as strategies of postcolonial transformation in Diop’s novel. Finally, I argue that although  At Night All Blood is Black  commemorates the French African soldiers’ contribution to the First World War, rather than simply painting a heroic portrait of the  tirailleurs sénégalais , it does so by stressing their vulnerability and their traumatic transformation at the front.

Tirailleurs Sénégalais , Savagery, and War Trauma in At Night All Blood is Black by David Diop