WAEC - Government (2012 - No. 39)
Which of the following delayed nationalist movements in French West Africa?
Presence of educated elite
The policy of Assimilation
The use of local chiefs
Granting of freedom to Africans
Paliwanag
The policy of assimilation was the official colonial policy of the French administration in West Africa. The system involved the imposition of French culture on the West African culture. It was meant to substitute the culture, language, religion, law, mode of dressing, etc. It delayed the rise of natiolaist movement