State the positive impacts of the French policy of assimilation on Africans.
Answer:
- All colonies were subjected to the same law.
-Assimilated Africans were given French citizenship with full rights of a French citizen.
- There was minimal racial discrimination in the colonies.
-French goods and modern ways of life were introduced in the French West Africa.
- Africans were allowed to elect a representative (deputy) to the French chamber of deputies.
-The rise of African nationalism since the African educated elites fought against cultural
domination and independence.