Dispossessed chiefs and religious leaders fueled the 1916 and 1917 revolts
Evidence
This tranquillity, however, had a price, and France quickly earned the hatred of those who lost when peace was achieved: dispossessed sovereigns, warrior chiefs, marabouts, witches, fetishists. For a long time, these elements “managed to lure us into a false sense of secu- rity by their cleverness.” They were nevertheless waiting for the right moment to reassert their preeminence-they were at the root of the revolts of 1916 and 1917. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 660
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
Related
- Dispossessed African elites and religious authorities triggered the revolts of 1916-1917. (similarity 0.90)
- Rebellion correlated with the absence of surviving traditional chiefs (similarity 0.84)
- Rebellion flared where French rule had already eliminated traditional chiefs (similarity 0.83)
- Colonial revolts during the war prompted France to restore hereditary chiefs as rulers. (similarity 0.81)
- Chiefs could not serve simultaneously as ethnic representatives and French agents (similarity 0.81)
- France reversed its prewar view by reframing precolonial chiefs as representative and honorable. (similarity 0.80)
- French-imposed chiefs and recruitment abuses sparked the eight-month western Volta rebellion (similarity 0.80)
- Chiefs collaborated with French rule for wealth and power, not ideology. (similarity 0.79)
- Unexpected wartime revolts shifted France toward a conservative, distancing republicanism (similarity 0.79)
- Recruitment excesses triggered the Dahomey revolt led by aristocrats (similarity 0.79)
- French indirect rule had actually weakened the chiefs it depended upon (similarity 0.78)
- Colonial chiefs’ collaboration reinforced rightward drift in France (similarity 0.78)
- Dismantling native chiefdoms risked French rule without replacements available (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Rebellion correlated with the absence of surviving traditional chiefs
#contradicts(0.70) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 510