Colonial administrators feared syndicalism and particularist sentiment but not full nationalism in Senegal

Evidence

We must not hide the fact that certain elements of the population and certain milieux are not totally insensitive to the eventual agitations of … syndicalism … In Senegal, the periodic play of electoral passions has gradually exalted in one part of the urban population, certainly not a Senegalese nationalism, the term is too strong, but particularist sentiments that clever propaganda knows how to exploit in order to achieve its own criminal ends. The syndicalist spirit has already penetrated certain worker centers. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 554

Categorization

• DEFINE: Governor general himself defines the boundary between particularist sentiment and Senegalese nationalism, a distinction that matters throughout the chapter.
• XREF: connects to: the MOC “The Republic’s Impossible Embrace: How Universalism Turned Algeria from the Future of France into Its Undoing”