When the French colonized West Africa, they set up French schools and Catholic churches, taught the French language and customs to the local people, and encouraged them to give up their own customs. This can best be described as:

Cultural Imperialism

Explanation: Cultural Imperialism is a term used in sociology to describe the processes and procedures through a new culture is imposed or introduced into another Community or society. Most of the Early Christian Missionaries used the cultural Imperialism approach to impose or indoctrinate the Africans with their own cultures and religious beliefs. Like the French Missionaries,the Portuguese Missionaries,the Irish Missionaries etc