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This paper is concerned with historical inaccuracies found in the movie Le Camp de Thiaroye by Sembene Ousmane and in the novel Morts pour la France by Doumbi-Fakoly, both works representing the 1944 mutiny and massacre of Thiaroye, Senegal. Instead of blaming the authors for their ignorance or, worse, for their intention to fool the audience, this paper provides explanations mainly based on intertextual relationships with other cultural documents and the internal economy of the works themselves. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]