French West Africa (French: Afrique occidentale française, AOF) is part of the French Union in north west Africa. It borders in the north with Western Sahara, Algeria and Libya, French Equatorial Africa to the west, to the southwest Nigeria. In the 1930s the policy of assimilation was considered by the colonial lobby and some groups has an insufficient means to keep French rule. Critical voices from an emerging African middle class where also emerging. The social republican government, headed by François de La Rocque changed the policy of assimilation to association within the French Union.
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| - French West Africa (Twilight of a New Era)
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| - French West Africa (French: Afrique occidentale française, AOF) is part of the French Union in north west Africa. It borders in the north with Western Sahara, Algeria and Libya, French Equatorial Africa to the west, to the southwest Nigeria. In the 1930s the policy of assimilation was considered by the colonial lobby and some groups has an insufficient means to keep French rule. Critical voices from an emerging African middle class where also emerging. The social republican government, headed by François de La Rocque changed the policy of assimilation to association within the French Union.
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| - Roman Catholic, Islam, Protestant, African Indigenous Churches and various African traditional religions
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| - Bamako, Dakar, Timbuktu and Abidjan
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| - Afrique occidentale française
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| - French West African franc , Franc d'outre-mer
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| - Territorial flag of French West Africa
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| - Arabic, Berber, Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Bambara, Mande, Fula and Gbe
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| - Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
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| - Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
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| - French West Africa (French: Afrique occidentale française, AOF) is part of the French Union in north west Africa. It borders in the north with Western Sahara, Algeria and Libya, French Equatorial Africa to the west, to the southwest Nigeria. AOF was created with the aim of coordinating under one authority French colonial penetration in Sub-Saharan Africa. A hallmark of the French colonial project in the late 19th century and early 20th century was the civilizing mission (mission civilisatrice), the principle that it was Europe's duty to bring civilization to benighted peoples. As such, colonial officials undertook a policy of Franco-Europeanization in French colonies, most notably French West Africa. Africans who adopted French culture, including fluent use of the French language and conversion to Christianity, were granted equal French citizenship, including suffrage (assimilation). For example the residents of the "Four Communes" in Senegal were granted citizenship. In the 1930s the policy of assimilation was considered by the colonial lobby and some groups has an insufficient means to keep French rule. Critical voices from an emerging African middle class where also emerging. The social republican government, headed by François de La Rocque changed the policy of assimilation to association within the French Union. Organic laws for West Africa (1936) and Equatorial Africa (1936) changed the administration giving limited self government and representation by means of territorial councils and local city government (but with lesser powers in relation to a French Commune). Later legislation would eliminate most of the precepts and legal structure associated to the Code de l'Indigénat. A sort of AOF citizenship would gradually appear. In AOF, the Governor General, named by the President of the French Union, is the political and military head of the AOF. He receives direct instructions from the President of the French Union and carries out the policies of High Council and ministère de Territoires d'Outre-mer. Each territory is in charge of Territorial Governors, named by the President of the French Union but responsible before the Governor General. The Territorial Council, directly elected, assists in the administration, welfare and economic development. The capital of the territory where given a local elected council and executive. The established communes keep their status, but would have a common territorial council.
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