The White Colonial French Were Deeply Worried, So Propagandists Came Up With An Infantilized Image of Africa

To calm down the French, who were worried about arming some of those they controlled through colonialism, propagandists produced “a range of stereotypical images of the black African soldier, who was characterized as both heroic and strong, but still limited in his power, as in the Banania advertisements that suggest a subservient and harmless individual.”