POLS 3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Basil Davidson, Alexis De Tocqueville, Personal Rule

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3000
• Professor: Ian Spears

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Policy of controlling, dominating and or settiling a territory sub sahara was the last great place to get dominated by europeans states that weren"t colonized by euro: liberia and ethiopia. African colonozlain does not began until the late (cid:883)(cid:890)(cid:882)(cid:882)"s, called the scramble of africa. Davidson is saying the european model has been a curse for africa, not served it well. These englintened sons and daughters of slaves saw european ways and though their africa ways were savage. African slaves, progress that was ingenious had to be abandoned and european was the way to progress. Differences between herbst and davidson are subtle- european state was not quite pushed on africa, davidison says that africans were taught that their model wasn"t good enough, if africa had stayed true to iteslef and resisted modern temptations ( The adoption of islam as an anti corruption device. Get sympathy from the western goverments and maybe get support.