Paris pressured Dakar to intensify raw-material extraction from West Africa
Evidence
In October of that year, the minister again made it clear that he wanted more results in every domain; the words “concrete results” were even underlined. Depeche ministerielle, no. 4833, Oct. 23, 1926, reprinted in ANS, circulaire no. 239, Gouverneur general to lieutenants gouverneurs, Nov. 30, 1926. In Decem- ber, the Ministry recommended that a policy of “agricultural specialization by region” be introduced in West Africa as part of the ongoing effort to sup- ply the metropole with raw materials and provisions. ANS, Depeche min- isterielle, no. 5758, Ministre des Colonies to gouverneur general, Dec. 21, 1926. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 1391
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: Connects to the colonial extraction logic documented across the book, where the metropole’s needs drove increasingly coercive colonial policy.
Related
- Paris repeatedly pressured Dakar to boost cotton and raw-material production for the metropole (similarity 0.89)
- Dakar’s production directives drove colonial subordinates toward coercive enforcement (similarity 0.81)
- French planners hoped to make West Africa a cotton plantation for metropolitan self-sufficiency (similarity 0.79)
- West African manpower scarcity drove deeper French intervention in African labor (similarity 0.78)
- France’s postwar colonial policy fixed West Africa as a raw-materials producer (similarity 0.78)