Abstract

Abstract This paper examines the new rhetoric and policy of 'democratic' association that emergea1 in Dakar after World War I. New threats to French authority—the election of Biaise Diagne and revolts throughout AOF against conscription—along with a shift to the rightin France, led administrators in the 1920s to reformulate the politique indigene followed since 1895. The legitimate aspirations of old and new African elites for power were now to be met by associating them in decision-making. Ostensibly a liberalizing move, association in fact was fundamentally backwards-looking, seeking to contain the African ambitions that Dakar's prewar policies had unwittingly unleashed.

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