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Ernest Roume
Ernest Roume was a French colonial administrator who served as governor-general of French West Africa from 1902 to 1908. Based at Dakar, he reorganised the federation in 1904, giving the governor-general control of a common budget funded by customs revenue, and used it to build railways, the port of Dakar and a federal school system. His structure lasted until the federation was dissolved.
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