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Title:Educating a colonial elite: the William Ponty School of French West Africa, 1904-1945
Author:Sabatier, Peggy R.
Year:1980
Periodical:Educafrica: Bulletin of the Unesco Regional Office for Education in Africa
Issue:6
Pages:109-126
Language:English
Geographic term:Senegal
Subjects:colonial policy
acculturation
secondary education
Abstract:Many observers have seen the high level of culture of the Ecole William Ponty (Senegal) graduates as proof that the French followed a consistent policy of educational assimilation, that at least at the level of Ponty, education in Africa was virtually identical to that in France and deliberately designed to create 'black Frenchmen'. This article deals with the question: Does a closer examination of the Ecole William Ponty in the pre-World War II period bear out this assumption? Note, photogr., ref., tab.