Évolué
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In the Belgian and French colonial empires, an évolué was an African who had been Europeanised through education and assimilation and had accepted European values and patterns of behaviour. Évolués sp
Évolués in the Belgian Congo studying medicine in Medical School of Yakusu Hospital, near Kisangani.
A social club in the Belgian Congo, c. 1943.
Native code (France)
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The Native code was a diverse and fluctuating set of arbitrary laws and regulations which created in practice an inferior legal status for natives of French colonies from 1881 until 1944–1947.
A customary court in French West Africa, c. 1920. Note the native judges are wearing traditional French judges' hats. A uniformed Guard de Cercle stands in the background.
Apartheid signs trainstation