Give the negative effects of the French policy of assimilation on Africans.
Answer:
-It undermined African culture as the assimilated Africans abandoned African culture for the French culture e.g. language
-The authority of African traditional rulers was eroded as many were replaced with young
assimilated and educated Africans.
-Loss of African independence since eventually the region was colonized by the French.
-The African colonies incorporated into the French Republic and were regarded as overseas provinces of France.
-The spread of Islam was heavily frustrated since Africans were forced to Convert to Christianity.
-Emergence of a rift between the assimilated African communities who were regarde as Frenchmen and the rest as African communes who were subjected to forced labour, taxation, arbitrally, arrest etc.