There's a lot to be said about France and other European powers treatment of their colonial troops, but North Africa certainly wasn't the main provider of soldi

There's a lot to be said about France and other European powers treatment of their colonial troops, but North Africa certainly wasn't the main provider of soldiers. From Wikipedia: "At the end of the war on November 11, 1918, the French had called up 8,817,000 men, including 900,000 colonial troops.". Note that this includes all colonies as well as "French troops" stationed in the colonies (apparently half that number). Another Wikipedia article cites around 270'000 people from Northern Africa among them 180'000 soldiers.