POL301Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Dual Mandate, Tropical Africa, Indirect Rule
Document Summary
Lugard, author of the dual mandate in british tropical africa, 1919. The dual mandate meant to develop the colonies politically and economically and also to exploit them for the benefit of the metropolitan economy: british indirect rule. Indirect rule was based on ethics, tradition and theory. Delegation of powers and maintain balance b/n tradition and modernity. The british had to deal with taxation, military force and alienation of land. Algeria, kenya, south africa, rhodesia etc. with significant number of white settlers where direct rule by europeans over african applied generally. During independence, it was not easy to give up land from colonizers to. Most of the colonies in africa and asia, with a small number of european population living among the colonized colonized: colonies of exploitation, methods of colonial rule in africa, four main theories. Respect for african institutions and development the expression of.
