Missionary-educated Africans were resented by colonial administrators for demanding rights
Evidence
In the past missionaries had counted themselves successful if their work in the field of education had produced black Englishmen, Africans who seemed to have assimilated Western culture. But these missionary-educated Africans were anathema to many administrators and others. They were “cheeky” and demanded social equality and political rights. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 855
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- SEED: Article angle: the irony that the very assimilated subjects colonial ideology held up as its success story were the ones who punctured the fiction by demanding the equality they’d been promised — a pattern repeated across empires.
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- French officials feared emancipation ideas would incite educated Africans to seek leadership (similarity 0.78)