HIST 460 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Concubinage, Indirect Rule, Brave People
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Idea: to keep boundaries between the races sharp, so that british civilize the. Africans rather than declining by going native : from the 1920s, officials across colonial africa routinely began to bring european wives, who had informal roles (volunteer work, for instance) African men"s power under two kinds of rule. Indirect rule : decentralized administration, trying to govern through traditional cultures, most associated with the british. Direct rule : centralized administration, trying to assimilate africans to colonizer"s culture, most associated with the french. Assimilated africans, with more rights than majority: rights to vote; exemption from certain taxes & forced labor under different legal code, evolue balise diagne of senegal even represented assimilated africans in the. Assimilated africans than the french did: colonies were run on smaller budgets, and with more brute force, commonality everywhere: women were excluded from colonial political power, to an historically unprecedented extent .
