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By the 1870s, many European countries were looking to expand their control in Africa. At the Berlin Conference in 1884, the USA, the Ottoman Empire and 12 European countries divided up most of...
27 Νοε 2013 · In the decades before the First World War, British Africa included protectorates over theoretically sovereign states, a handful of West African coastal enclaves with Crown Colony status, settler colonies, the self-governing dominion of South Africa, and territories governed by anachronistic charter companies that belonged to an earlier imperial ...
From 1837 to 1844 the British forced the Afrikaner population onto the Great Trek, a resettlement plan that moved the Afrikaners from the coastal colonial settlement to the interior lands of Transvaal and Orange Free State.
21 Οκτ 1999 · One was the plan taken over from Lord Kimberley by Carnarvon, as Secretary of State for the Colonies, to consolidate the fractious colonies, republics, and African societies south of the Zambezi into a ‘confederation’ ruled from a self-governing Cape Colony.
Leopold’s international stance ‘rapidly degenerated into a national scramble’, pushing Britain to secure Protectorates on the West African coast against France, and pulling Germany into the picture.
Indirect rule, the brainchild of the British colonial administrator Frederick Lugard, became the main system the British used to administer their African colonies. The British used African traditional rulers to work on their behalf and help subjugate their fellow Africans.
17 Φεβ 2011 · Until the 19th century, Britain and the other European powers confined their imperial ambitions in Africa to the odd coastal outpost from which they could exert their economic and military...
