African citizenship grants in French West Africa nearly collapsed between 1920 and 1924.
Evidence
- Buell, Native Problem, I: 947; see also ANSOM, AP I525, Naturalisations, AOF. These records, which are incomplete, show eighteen naturalizations in I92o, then only four in I923, and six in I924. They do not indicate how many applied. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 1266