The Assimilation Policy was a system used by France in its colonies, especially in French West Africa, where the aim was to make Africans adopt the French language, culture, laws and institutions so that they could become French citizens.
However, the policy required:
Providing French-style education
Extending French legal and administrative systems
Granting citizenship rights to those fully assimilated
Implementing these across large colonial populations became too costly and difficult. Because of this, France gradually replaced assimilation with the Association Policy, which allowed Africans to retain more of their traditional institutions.
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