Assimilation coloniale et identités religieuses de la civilité des originaires des Quatre Communes (Sénégal)

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Abstract

This article aims to resume the argument over both the interpretation given to the colonial politics of assimilation and its consequences on the colonial societies. Focusing on Senegal’s four regions, Saint Louis, Gorée, Rufique, and Dakar, the article questions the validity of the interpretation of assimilation as a deliberate policy of obliteration of the colonized people’s culture by the colonizers and of the appropriation of the latter’s culture by the former. This analysis insists upon the complexity of the transactions and emphasizes the creation of a culture, which affirms itself as different from metropolitan culture, although placed within the framework of the colonial system.