France denied Africans a medical school citing their insufficient development

Evidence

Roume rejected the possibility of creating a medical school in Dakar, such as existed in Madagascar and Indochina, because of the insufficient “development of our African populations.” Instead, aides-medecins were to be trained in each circle by European doctors. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 980

Categorization

• XREF: Core tension of the civilizing mission: the stated goal of uplift justified denying Africans advancement—echoes the reader’s interest in how republicanism was forced on West Africa.
• SEED: The civilizing mission paradox: education withheld on the grounds that the population isn’t developed enough to receive it—recursive loop justifying permanent subordination.