Panty’s politique des races attacked African chiefs while claiming racial progress

Evidence

These ideas were presented in his 1909 circular, under the rubric la politique des races-a term first popularized by Gallieni in Indochina. 18 Ostensibly a directive about ensuring Africans’ right to progress along their own lines, this circular also endorsed an attack upon African chiefs that went considerably beyond the breakup of great commands. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 389