HISB51H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sokoto Caliphate, Indirect Rule, Dual Economy
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Colonial state formation: little thought to col. state prior to conquest, a lot of improvisation, trial and error o encounters. Direct rule (french) ruling structures culture (to an extent) Assimilate africans to french citizen and the subject. Ideas on how to rule were transferred from previous colonial. Ivory coast; had one white official for every. Indirect rule origin: frederick lugard, devised indirect rule, came from india, wanted a more authoritarian administration, sokoto caliphate, northern nigeria (islamic, sophisticated political institutions, laws, unique circumstances because there were already chiefs who could be used. Chiefs had financial autonomy, administrative power, legal power. Council of elders -----> chief: not always true, customary laws, taxes. Tribes (invented term: units placed under native admin, ruled by a chief. Because of the great depression many adopted indirect rule. Colonial economies: colonial trade economy, slave trade -> integration into international economy, tropical agricultural products.
