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USA Africa Dialogue Series - Effects Of French Policy Of Assimilation On West Africa

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The major policy of French colonial administration in West Africa
until 1946 took on the wheels of "Assimilation".
The underlying policy was to enable France implant French culture and
civilisation on the people with the intention of suffocating the
culture and fundamentalities of Afrikans. The policy of Assimilation
can be strategically divided into three folds_ranging; political,
economic and socio-cultural.

Political Assimilation

The political administration of assimilation which was controlled from
a centralised federation as the Federation of French West Africa had
it headquarters at Dakar, Senegal. The laws for the
administration,that is, obnoxious were deliberately made in France
under the very watchful eyes of the legislative body in France.

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