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West African colonial education aimed at loyalty to individual Frenchmen

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West African colonial education aimed at loyalty to individual Frenchmen

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As subsequent instructions explained, the point was not, as in the metropole, to make the children love France, but rather to make them love the French. — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 464

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West African colonial education aimed at loyalty to individual Frenchmen
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Colonial parents send children abroad to be made into Frenchmen
French colonial education ignored African languages until the 1930s
French colonial peace in West Africa masked deep ambiguity about African loyalty.
French colonial women were assigned motherhood as their first vocation
French officials saw peace and liberation as the source of African loyalty
French schooling produced African elites who rejected colonial discipline
Missionary-educated Africans became politically demanding and threatened colonial administrators.
Alice L. Conklin — A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930
Alice L. Conklin — A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930

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West African colonial education aimed at loyalty to individual Frenchmen

West African colonial education aimed at loyalty to individual Frenchmen

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