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Give five factors for the failure of assimilation policy and the British system of administration

Give five factors for the failure of assimilation policy and the British system of administration.

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1. Administrators were arrogant and corrupt

2. Little or no regard for African traditional laws

3. African chiefs were forced to follow French legal system

4. French legal system based on diverse customary laws

5. Language diversity

6. It proved expensive to French government – Public was unwilling to pay to meet colonial infrastructure

7. French public saw Africans as posing unnecessary competition with the whites in labour market

8. A section of French population objected the idea of assimilation because they regard Africans as a source of cheap
labour

9. African elites launched campaigns seeking recognition
johnmulu answered the question on February 6, 2017 at 13:47

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