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This chapter considers the economic and ideological factors that prompted Caribbean people to join the British and French colonial administrations in Africa. In particular, the chapter focuses on the legacies of slavery, the grim economic circumstances of the late nineteenth century, the effects of colonial education, and the ideas about Africa that circulated in the Caribbean at the turn of the twentieth century. The chapter’s final section describes the motivations of the British and French for recruiting administrators from the Caribbean.