{"id":10680,"date":"2013-10-02T12:44:05","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T16:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/?page_id=10680"},"modified":"2024-04-25T18:02:03","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T22:02:03","slug":"colonialism","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/africa\/outreach\/teachingresources\/history\/colonialism\/","title":{"rendered":"19th-20th c. Colonialism & Resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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KEY POINTS<\/span><\/h4>\n
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  1. African voices about African experiences (not just restatement by others of African views) are crucial for understanding this period of history.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Colonialism was a new stage in relationships that had been going on for thousands of years between many of the Africans and Europeans.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Conquest was by brutal force, sometimes by trickery, sometimes by \u201cagreement\u201d\u2014so that African countries could bargain for some rights. Pros-and cons- of colonialism are not an appropriate activity student learning.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Anti-Black racism played a role in conquest and in colonial rule.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Science played a role in conquest and in colonial rule. Mapping, for example, is related to domination of the continent.<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Religion (Christian missionary activity) played a role in conquest and in colonial rule. <\/span><\/li>\n
  7. The colonial period was relatively short, roughly 1870\u20131960\u2014but it has had a heavy and lasting impact on economic, social, and political affairs, leading to what Nkrumah called neocolonalism (political freedom with economic dependency). See our lesson on the post-war international aid era.<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Colonialism fostered economic dependency, with long-term effects until today.<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Colonialism was authoritarian and fostered indigenous authoritarian rule, with long-term effects.<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Resistance took many forms. Beyond the violent\/non-violent binary, resistance was expressed through demands for equality and freedom, religious opposition, economic and labor organization, mass protest, and war.<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. Colonial rule led to resistance and, ultimately, to independence.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n