AKIN TO SLAVERY
LABOUR IN FRENCH EAST AFRICA LONDON, May 23. A scathing'indictment of French ad< ministration in French East. Africa and French Equatorial Africa is made in his book ‘ Terre d’Ebene’ (Ebony Land), based on his travels, by Albert Loudrcs, the French special correspondent. M. Londres states that an unparalleled exodus from these colonies has taken place during the past three years. Out of 20,000.000 negroes, 600,000 have gone to the Gold Coast and 2,000,000 to Nigeria, while 10,000 have left the villages to Jive under most savage conditions on the Ivory Coast and in the forests in order to escape recruitment for the army and forced labour on roads, railways, and as woodcutters in the forests. M. Londres vividly describes Government conditions of labour as akin to slavery in its worst form.
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Evening Star, Issue 20196, 8 June 1929, Page 13
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134AKIN TO SLAVERY Evening Star, Issue 20196, 8 June 1929, Page 13
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