Senegalese political activism threatened to spread across French West Africa

Evidence

Dakar also worried, legitimately enough (as we shall see), that Senegalese “Diagnism” was spreading to other colonies: “Diagnism,” which is all-powerful at the moment, has precipitated a movement, and it is under the influence [of this movement] that certain threats of strikes in the public services have sprung up in many colonies previously thought to be immune [from Diagnism]. We may well worry about what will happen the day our indigenous collaborators become more numerous. This day is in fact near … Bitter because they cannot attain the positions, which their ambitious and disordered imaginations encourage them to strive after, they follow with passionate interest the political struggles taking place in Senegal. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 544

Categorization

• XREF: This fear of a contagion of indigenous political aspiration radiating outward from Senegal is exactly the causal mechanism behind ‘ramifications’ that the reader’s goal asks for.