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> It's not like it keeps any communication unreadable or even more difficult to read from the government If the foreign government can only read French, it sur
by coliveira 4y ago
> It's not like it keeps any communication unreadable or even more difficult to read from the government
If the foreign government can only read French, it sure does it. Especially at a time when there was no google translator.
- coldtea 4y agoIt was precisely "at a time when there was no google translator" that governments, and especially colonial French and British related governments, notorious for it, had a great supply of bureucrats, bilingual employees, and lower staff versed in both languages, supplementary translators, local spys, native aristocracy, allies, and enforcers, and even whole swaths of scholars studing the occupied cultures...
- coliveira 4y agoYou are overstating how much the French or even the British could do in Africa during that period. 99% of what they had was just brute force coercion.