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|b The beginning of the nineteenth century in West Africa was marked by the incursion of colonial powers. This incursion began with the concentration of those powers on the African coast gradually, and ended with the military expansion on the continent to satisfy the economic, political and strategic motives of the colonialists. Unfortunately, there was an ulterior motive the colonialists hid behind it to facilitate their access to these aforementioned motives, and which did not gain researchers’ attention due to its extreme sensitivity, namely, the religious motive, which is to assimilate the Africans religiously, to ensure their loyalty to the colonialists, and to pacify their resistance peacefully, by spreading the religion of the colonizer, and the same time limiting the spread of Islam, which is a historical enemy of the colonialists. In this research paper the researcher deals with those religious policies enacted by the French colonialists in Africa, and its most important effects after independence, by presenting the religious map in Africa before colonialism, revealing the collusion between Christianization and colonialism in Africa, the French religious policy in its colonies, the colonial position on the legal judiciary, and the most important effects of the colonial religious policies after independence.
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