Colonized African elites, culturally remade as European, initiated elite nationalism

Evidence

It soon became clear, however, that the colonial governments had moved too late. “Elite nationalism,” one of the first political expressions of the Black petit bourgeoisie, was already propelling complements of the class into the older, more profound tradition of radicalism. … By the 1920s and 1930s, conflict and incoherence had spread into almost all aspects of life in colonial Africa. There appeared a group of Africans who had acquired the cultures of the colonizers and considered themselves to be British, French, and Portuguese. They had learned to consider Europe as home and had adopted European clothing, speech, and mannerisms. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 858

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader thesis on how petit bourgeois nationalism becomes a conduit into radical tradition discussed earlier in the book. — connects to: Colonial domination operated by casting Europeans as normative and Africans as other. — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists:…, 35