Postwar French domestic patriarchy concerns directly shaped colonial support for traditional chiefs.

Evidence

These same concerns with restoring domestic order reverberated overseas, as Dakar’s growing interest in respecting chiefs whose power was “traditional” and “familial” fully attests. In the interwar years, an intensification of racialized thinking and reassertion of neo-traditional values went hand in hand, at home and in the empire. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 609