Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Conflicting Visions: Framing French West Africa -- 2. The Lessons of War: Rethinking the Originaires -- 3. Toward the Interior: Rural Schools and Colonial Reform -- 4. Reorienting African Schoolteachers: Agents of the Future -- 5. L?opold S?dar Senghor and the Popular Front: New Possibilities for Reform -- 6. The National Revolution in AOF: Debating the Future during the War Years -- 7. Gaullist Hesitations: From the Brazzaville Conference to the Liberation -- 8. The Education of African "Citizens": Struggles over Integration -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index