Central oversight of forced cultivation could not restrain local administrators.

Evidence

Antonetti’s attitude indicates that the questions that the high administration was beginning to ask regarding compulsory cash-crop cultivation had little relevance for those administrators in colonies that lacked a tradition of export agriculture. Under these circumstances, the inspectors’ conviction that regulation would prevent the excesses uncovered in Ivory Coast and Upper Volta was illusory. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 823

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Institutional rules cannot be transplanted across settings unchanged. — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 43