Control through coercion, a study of the indigenat regime in French West African administration 1887-1946

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Title:	Control through coercion, a study of the indigenat regime in French West African administration 1887-1946
Author:	Asiwaju, A.I.
Year:	1979
Periodical:	Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire, Série B: Sciences humaines
Volume:	41
Issue:	1
Pages:	35-71
Language:	English
Geographic term:	French West Africa
Subjects:	colonial policy indigenous peoples
Abstract:	Arising from their very nature as minority regimes all colonial administrations are known to have manifested features of a police state, characterised by a repressive and arbitrary exercise of power. Quite apart from the terrorizing effect of the military supremacy demonstrated at the inception of the colony, the other techniques of control included the imposition of the culture, including the language and legal institutions, of the colonising power and the outright use of administrative compulsion. But while a great deal of research and writing has been done on the military, cultural and legal aspects, far less scholarly attention has been focussed on control through coercion. This study of the Indigenat Regime attempts to fill this gap by emphasizing that this mode was, indeed, the most prominent in French West African Administration. Sections: Introduction - Dominances over other control techniques - The philosophical base - The legal texts - Impact on the Colonies - Abolition of the regime. Notes, sum. (also in French).