Dakar feared communist propaganda tapped young educated Africans’ wish to escape colonial order.

Evidence

These new tendencies of revolutionary propaganda are potentially very dangerous, because they correspond to the more or less obscure aspirations of that entire category of feverish young men, who … wish to lead their fellow countrymen out of the primitive structures and the order that we have established. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 564