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Towards a Nigerian perspective on the French problematic in Africa

IntroductionThe French savoir faireAs far back as 1903, E. Fallot, a French colonial officer then posted to Tunisia, wrote a book on the specificity of French colonial policy in Africa and why it would outlive British colonial policy. Fallot defined the French conception of colonialism as:Action exercised by a civilised people over people with inferior civilisations with the objective of gradually transforming them through developing their natural resources and improving their material and m...