War service in France seeded Dahomey’s anticolonial leadership.

Evidence

During the war, several Dahomeyan evolues serving in France took advantage of the opportunity to establish contact with the incipient anticolonial movement. Among them was Louis Hunkanrin, whom the Government General soon came to view with as much hostility as it had for Diagne. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 555

Categorization

Category: Causal Relationships

• DEFINE: establishes the profile of the evolué anticolonialist: French-educated, pressed but with no institutional outlet, moving from teaching/trade into politics.

Related

• World War I service in France connected Dahomeyan elites to anticolonial networks. (similarity 0.93)
• War experience and Diagne’s rise created expectations that fueled 1920s anticolonial mobilization (similarity 0.79)