JAMB - History (2002 - No. 42)
The French policy of assimilation failed primarily because
Africans lacked the required level of education
It was expensive to implement
it required total rejection of African culture
no African sought to be assimilated.
Explicaţie
African culture hand become part and parcel of the black man’s life; he found it difficult to totally abandon such a culture which he had been used to over
many years to embrace a totally different one.
many years to embrace a totally different one.