Dakar officials by 1920 repudiated the republican anti-chief crusade as bourgeois ideology

Evidence

An administrative report from I920 hinted at Dakar’s change of heart, when it noted that the “fierce struggle against chiefs” had been a misguided crusade, inspired by the republican ideology of France’s newly triumphant bourgeoisie. Such a crusade was out of touch with African realities and had to be abandoned: The prewar years had been a time when the administrative cadres were filled with young people just out of school, sons of bourgeois living off annuities or children of the lower classes educated with the help of scholarships … — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 654

Categorization

• XREF: Core to the reader’s interest: colonial administrators themselves came to see France’s civilizing republicanism as a bourgeois ideology out of touch with African realities.