Horace Crocicchia

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Horace Valentin Crocicchia (born November 6, 1888 in Tulle , † 1976 in Nice ; spelling of the surname also Croccichia ) was a French colonial official. He was the governor of French India , the Ivory Coast and French Guinea .

Life

Horace Crocicchia was a Corsican . His father worked as a senior railway employee. He made a License in Law and then started in the administration of the French colonies to work. From 1913 he was a clerk for indigenous affairs and in 1923 he reached the rank of administrator of the colonies.

Crocicchia worked as district commander of Niamey in the colony of Niger in the mid-1920s . At Christmas 1924 he received the participants of the Tranin-Duverne mission in Niamey as they were crossing Africa . He suppressed the Hauka cult of obsession among the Songhai in West Niger because of its feared subversion . Thereupon he was accepted as the spirit being "evil major" or "Korsasi" (an allusion to his Corsican origin) in the cult spreading in West Africa . In Les Maîtres fous , a 1954 caused major work of filmmaker Jean Rouch , the healing of a obsession with the "evil Major" in Accra shown. In 1929 Crocicchia rose to the rank of captain of the infantry of the colonial troops in West Africa.

Horace Crocicchia succeeded Léon Solomiac as governor of French India in 1936 . He held this position until 1938. The following year he became governor of the Ivory Coast. With the Armistice of Compiègne in June 1940, he joined the Vichy regime . He tried to force the declining cotton cultivation in the colony. Crocicchia, who had met a British major from the Gold Coast , was said to have sympathy for the British, which is why he lost his post as governor of the Ivory Coast in 1940. His last position was as governor of French Guinea from 1942 until he was retired in 1944.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Joseph-Roger de Benoist: Église et pouvoir colonial au Soudan français. Les relations entre les administrateurs et les missionnaires catholiques dans la Boucle du Niger, de 1885 à 1945 . With a foreword by Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch. Karthala, Paris 1987, p. 473 .
  2. ^ Journal officiel de la République française . February 14, 1903, p. 895 ( digitized on Gallica [accessed February 13, 2019]).
  3. ↑ a b Horace Crocicchia. In: data.bnf.fr. Retrieved February 13, 2019 (French).
  4. ↑ Gustave Duverne : De l'Atlantique à l'Océan indien (Konakry – Djibouti) avec la mission Tranin-Duverne, November 1st 1924- April 9th ​​1925 . With a foreword by Antonin Brocard and woodcuts by Marcel Arthaud. Gianoli et Valentin, Paris 1926, p. 24-25 .
  5. ^ Paul Henley: The Adventure of the Real. Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema . The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2009, ISBN 978-0-226-32714-3 , pp. 117 .
  6. ^ Journal officiel de la République française . April 28, 1929, p. 4982 ( digitized from Gallica [accessed February 13, 2019]).
  7. ^ India. In: WorldStatesmen.org. Accessed February 13, 2019 .
  8. ^ Thomas J. Bassett: The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa: Côte d'Ivoire, 1880-1995 . 2nd Edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2006, ISBN 978-0-521-78883-0 , pp. 81 .
  9. ↑ Ruth Ginio: French Colonialism Unmasked. The Vichy Years in French West Africa . University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln / London 2006, ISBN 978-0-8032-2212-0 , pp. 26-27 .
  10. ^ Journal officiel de la République française . August 12, 1948, p. 7930 ( digitized on Gallica [accessed February 13, 2019]).
  11. ^ Journal officiel de la République française . July 31, 1933, p. 8127 ( digitized from Gallica [accessed February 13, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Crocicchia, Horace
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Crocicchia, Horace Valentin (full name); Croccichia, Horace Valentin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French colonial administrator
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Grommet
DATE OF DEATH 1976
Place of death Nice