You wake up as a colonial governor in French West Africa in 1895

>you wake up as a colonial governor in French West Africa in 1895.

What would you do to ensure that this Federation succeed into the modern age with relative stability compared to any France or Botswana?

The actions you'd do to help develop it would funnily enough run cobtrary to your goals as a colony and colonial administration.

I Import and pay whites to rape nigresses and produce a high IQ mulatoe people

or

I genocide the niggers

>a group of Africans are literally called Da Homeys

It's not really something I'd care about as part of my profession, but teach everyone french, outlaw one tribal language at a time or something like that, ask my lord for a railroad network.

Perhaps promote conscription as part of a program of national service. It will give the youth something to do and maybe even give them a comprehensive education, to make up for their comprehensive education.

>Perhaps promote conscription as part of a program of national service. It will give the youth something to do

They'll want equal rights if they are conscripted or forced. Paid soldiers still demanded equality regardless of their pay.

Edgy

Literally just settler colonialism.

Forced relocation of all natives to territory not under French control. It's a fucking awful thing to do, but colonies are ultimately doomed in the long run if the natives don't agree with you being there. Look at Indochina or Algeria.

Breed everything and set up public work camps. Recruit mates to breed everything as well. Regiment the army and start finding glorious deaths for all the native black males too.

Probably it would fuck up but...
>create railway across FWA than just from big cities to ports.
>force some of the boys from young to education, to learn how to manage/ how to create industrial factories
>promote settlling frenchmens to africa with hope some of them would choose nigers to marry and have happy fammilies
>masive propaganda to promote fighting with any crime/fighting with primitivism/ industrulization of area

But that would make no profit for France, and countries would eventually want to break free so... not realy worth it

Also maybe
>create some african militia to keep peace in region

Maybe we could beg France/Any Euro nation to send their criminals to us or pay peasants to move to FWA?

>high IQ mulatto

How about creating a conscription force with the promise of full French citizenship after 2 years of service?

2 years are not enoguh
You need atleast 5-7 years in millitary to become frenchman

This, I send the natives to the British-owned Africa and make west Africa into a french penal colony.

Every male is gonna join it and they ALL want all the rights and complete equality with French metropole citizens. Also since every male wants to be a citizen that means that your labour pool of corveé (forced) and later on dirt cheap labour will takea hit.

If you promise them full citizenship but fail to deliver it 100% that means mass discontent ("we are citizens and we did your song and dance and we still get treated like shit"). Also a big non-French voting bloc.

GG you played yourself.

>create railway across FWA than just from big cities to ports.

That costs money. These aren't Frenchmen, they are Africans they aren't worth the investment

>force some of the boys from young to education, to learn how to manage/ how to create industrial factories

There's countless cases of Africans seeking out education on the continent during the colonial years, They'd be completely willing to do that out of their own free will that is unless you are going to do it Indian Residential school style in which that case you'd actually be making much more problems then solving them.

>promote settlling frenchmens to africa with hope some of them would choose nigers to marry and have happy fammilies

Frenchmen had FREE forced labourers to use on farms or other stuff, had the rights of being a French citizen and few of them came. Turns out France in those times was pretty damn decent place to live in and no one wanted to move enamsse. Also The French bitched like a grumpy 5-year old once corvee (slave labour basically) was abolished and their unfair labour advantage was gone vs African farmers so said African farmers completely wrecked them in the market.

later part you are just gonna develop a class of mullatoes who are trapped in the world of not being white enough for French society and anti-African prejudice but too educated and loathing of their African side with the eventual marginalistion once white numbers surge up with immigration+births.

if the natives don't agree with you being there. Look at Indochina or Algeria.

Lets ignore all the oppression and complete disregard of the locals wellbeings or sentiments. What you are saying is literally the equivalent of drama queens going "why doesn't anyone like me" while completely failing to see how everyone is tired of their hysterics and drama behaviour that everyone gave you multiple chances to stop.

>Every male is gonna join it and they ALL want all the rights and complete equality with French metropole citizens.
Didn't you know that french citizenship was available to algerian muslims after 1865 ?
Only 7000 went through the process in the whole colonial period.

French citizenship wasn't really attractive at that time.

>French citizenship wasn't really attractive at that time.

Yeah having to give up your religion is something Algerian muslims won't do. Islam ran contrary to the French empire so the two often could not meet.

convince them to all become jews and immigrate to Ottoman Palestine.

Invade Germany and forceably copulate with their women, further diluting the hopeless polluted German gene pool and saving Europe from a century of unprecedented brutality.
Then I would educate the population into valuing their "Africaness" over religion and tribal differences. That's the real battle because without it any Federation is doomed to fail.

>Then I would educate the population into valuing their "Africaness" over religion and tribal differences

Africaness in the terms of a federation is extremely vague and prone to outside groups manipulating it for their gains. Religion and ethnic (not tribal) differences are never the cause of war but always a blanket ot hide the real issues.

They didn't have to give up their religion, just their religious/customary laws.
Yeah, they wouldn't do that.
I guess they knew they wouldn't be welcomed nor treated equally anyway, while on the other side their communities discouraged them.

But note that non-French Europeans in colonial Algeria were offered citizenship (without having to face reluctant administrations) and didn't really rush to get it either.

Conscript all the blacks as soldiers and have them fight other blacks in conquest wars until theyre all gone.
Then import europeans and make it mandatory to have at least 10 children.

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>having a majority populace of blacks waging total war amongst themselves for whitey won't backfire

kek

if they revolt ill just keep declaring more wars, what are they gonna do, sail to france?

Give Mande speakers the reigns as the English did with Igbo.

Focus on converting pagan Fulani to Catholicism to cement the relationship.

Center Fulani herders into mercantile forces to end Arab and Tuareg trade.

the french already did quite enough raping of negresses

Fulani girls, man.

Fulani girls, man. They were asking for it.

the problem is that many africans did agree with the French presence in many cases. the notion they all didn't is retrospective propaganda.

Raping nigresses is an English tradition, and French don't need rape to breed with foreign women

Your actions will create a big pacifist movement in your country in the future and people will start feeling guilty for what their country did. Leading to a massive and welcomed immigration from these countries to France.

Rename it "Toucoluor" and make it a federation of republics with home rule with the colonial government as the federal government which has two branches, one in the ivory coast and one in france.

Slowly introduce technology and intellectuals until you make a russian federation style government in africa, and import whites like mad into the ivory coast until the ivory coast is 50+% white
Then run it like russia runs today as the president of the Toucuolor Federation and Cote d'Ivoire with the French Monarchy as head of state
I think Nappy 3 was king at this time?

>That costs money. These aren't Frenchmen, they are Africans they aren't worth the investment
But that wasn't the point of the thread, the point was
>What would you do to ensure that this Federation succeed into the modern age with relative stability compared to any France or Botswana?

Because those qctions with what budget France had fir it's colonies it can't rrqllt fufill. Also massive amounts of land was either empty or sparsely populated.

>the problem is that many africans

Only the ones that benefitted from the colonial structure.

>Devolve power to local assemblies to cut costs and reduce the chances of native insurrection
>Major literacy push, to create a generation of future civil servants and national bourgeois
>Allow missionaries and charity workers free access
>Encourage foreign settlement and infrastructural investment

Form a private militia and use every opportunity to stomp down on the natives. Do not pull any punches. Massacre is legal when you do it. Literally decimate the population and force the survivors to pay tribute to YOU so you can bribe the hell out of the french statesmen that might disapprove.
>Inb4 owtheedge.jpg
Hey, if it worked when Ceasar did it, why wouldn't it work for me?

Start trade with contiguous nations. Maintain borders with trade. Declare holidays in common with local tradition. Exploit the geographic uniqueness of your governance.
Don't be a tyrant!

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