Governor General Roume consolidated federal authority and formulated the civilization ideology

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The solution would finally be provided between 1902 and 1904, thanks to the arrival of a particularly influential career administrator as governor general, Ernest Roume. More important still, with the appointment of Roume, not only was federal authority consolidated, but a clearcut ideology of civilization began to take shape at the highest level of the West African administration. The two events, as we shall see, were not unrelated. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 131