The The French education system in Mauritania and the attempt to obliterate identity

Abstract

This study aims to address the lack of local literatures and in the West Africa, generally about the French education system and its effects on the local identity and the cultural and social structure of the population. The French educational policy has confused Mauritanian cultural identity and disrupted the religious, linguistic and cultural structure in the area, which has continued centuries before, influencing and being influenced by civilization radiation, and interacting with neighbouring peoples. Despite the demolition of the French colonial administration against the community identity and its culture. The civil society has been able to withstand these policies aimed at undermining them from their civilizational and cultural roots, so we can argue - with the French's own testimony - that local identity has remained difficult to break through in the face of successive French educational policies.