The shaping of social aspirations of West African evolues (late 1930s-early 1940s)

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Title:	The shaping of social aspirations of West African evolues (late 1930s-early 1940s)
Author:	Letnev, A.B.
Year:	1985
Periodical:	Africa in Soviet Studies
Pages:	93-106
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	French-speaking Africa West Africa
Subjects:	elite colonial policy acculturation
Abstract:	The Africans living in former French West Africa who mastered the culture of the metropolitan country and enjoyed French citizenship rights were called évolués. The author analyses the attitude of the West African évolués towards colonialism during the 1930s and 1940s on the basis of diploma papers of the William Ponty School, which are kept in the Department of Manuscripts of the Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire in Dakar. On the one hand, the colonial administration succeeded in winning over to their side a considerable part of the évolués, on the other hand, many Ponty School graduates contributed to the elaboration of the democratic alternative of cultural and political assimilation. Notes, ref.