Labor requisitions drove tens of thousands of French West Africans to British colonies

Evidence

French officials estimated that between 2o,ooo and 25,000 workers from Upper Volta had migrated to Gold Coast in 1928. As was the case with the navetanes, these workers were often fleeing French labor requisitions in their home territories. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 1417

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Connects to navetane migration and to labor-flight literature across the Gold Coast/Upper Volta border.

Related

• West African migration to British colonies was flight from French forced labor (similarity 0.93)
• Thousands fled French forced labor by migrating to the British Gold Coast (similarity 0.86)
• French recruiters drained tens of thousands of Upper Volta workers for forced labor (similarity 0.86)
• Each French West African colony’s labor fate hinged on land and population (similarity 0.82)
• Forced labor drained Upper Volta of thousands of workers annually (similarity 0.80)
• France created Upper Volta colony mainly to exploit Mossi labor (similarity 0.79)
• Labor coercion concentrated in Ivory Coast, Western Sudan, and Upper Volta. (similarity 0.79)
• Forced labor risked driving Sudanese workers to emigrate to British colonies (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Thousands fled French forced labor by migrating to the British Gold Coast #expands (0.85)
• French colonial administrators knowingly cooperated in coercive labor recruitment #corroborates (0.65) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 845
• France’s colonial recruiting pushed African populations to revolt #expands (0.60)