African History · Unit 3
Colonial Rule in Practice
Three empires, three governing philosophies, and one shared consequence: the deliberate withholding of the skills self-rule would require
Learning Objectives
- •Students will be able to compare British indirect rule, French assimilation, and Belgian paternalism as three distinct colonial governing philosophies.
- •Students will analyze why British indirect rule functioned differently in Northern Nigeria's centralized emirates than among the decentralized Igbo, and its resulting 'warrant chief' system.
- •Students will evaluate the Four Communes citizenship model in Senegal alongside the far more restrictive 'evolue' path elsewhere in French Africa.
- •Students will assess the Belgian Congo's educational policy, including its documented outcome at independence, as evidence of paternalism's underlying function.