COLONIAL CONTROL TAKES MANY FORMS
I.
A STORY OF TWO LANDS
DRAW TWO CIRCULUAR OBJECTS; ONE SMALL (labeled “Country A”)
AND ONE LARGE (labeled “Land-O-B)
In Each Country, you will label:
 Cities
 Factories
 People
 Livestock
 Timber
 Mines
Let’s Evaluate The Situation:
1. What are some potential problems/issues that each country might
experience?
2. What are some potential challenges that lie ahead?
3. If you were the leader of country A, what can you do to meet some of
these challenges?
Conflict Dissection: Conflicts usually arise when someone wants
something or wants something to happen and for some reason it
does not. Use the chart below and the information you read about
in Chapter 11 / Section 2 to identify the conflict of imperialism and
the outcomes that resulted.
SOMEONE
WANTED/BECAUSE
BUT
SO
II.
A CASE FOR CONTROL
THE BRITISH IN NIGERIA
From Lord Malcolm Hailey, Native
Administration and-Political
Development in British Tropical Africa
(London, 1943).
THE FRENCH IN WEST AFRICA
From: Robert Delavignette, Freedom and
Authority in French West Africa (London,
1940).
“It is of great importance that administrative
officers should in their personal contact
with native authorities have regard to the
traditional position occupied by the council
or elders. It is no doubt a temptation,
especially in matters involving some
urgency, to follow the easy course of dealing
with the chief alone. But apart from the
offense which this may cause to native
custom, it is not possible to secure a true
view of native opinion on any proposed
measure unless the council or the elders are
brought freely into consultation. There is
moreover the risk that the native authority
may seek to avoid taking its proper share of
responsibility on the ground that it is
"working under government orders."
“Should the traditional authority of the
canton chief be restored? We have already
shown that this is a negative program. No,
the tendency of the administration is all
toward making these feudalists into officials.
But then we must face the thing. They
should be specialized officials and exercise a
distinctive function. . . . They have a personal
file in the records at the station and they are
scrupulously given good and bad marks by
their commandants. They are decorated,
they are welcomed at receptions on national
holidays, they are invited to visit
exhibitions; they are sent as delegates to
Dakar and even to Paris; they are brought
together on councils where they collaborate
with Europeans. And they are rightly treated
as important persons; but what is needed is
not to re-establish them, but to establish
them. Not to re-establish them in a social
structure that is dying, but to establish them
in a modern Africa that is being born. And it
is there that we should make officials of
them.”
What does each document say about the
approach to ruling colonial African
subjects?
What does each document say about
the approach to ruling colonial
African subjects?
“The author is saying that………….
“The author is saying that………….
FORMS OF IMPERIALISM: USING INFORMATION FROM CHAPTER 11 / SECTION
2, COMPLETE THE FOLLOWING TABLE: .
IN ADDITION, TO LISTING AN EXAMPLE FROM THE TEXT, PROVIDE AN
ADDITIONAL EXAMPLE WHERE THESE FORMS OF CONTROL HAVE BEEN
IMPLEMENT
FORM
Colony
DEFINITION
EXAMPLE
#1#2-
Protectorate
#1-
#2Sphere of Influence
#1-
#2Economic Imperialism
#1-
#2-