[vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1626271471815{background-color: #e5e5e5 !important;}”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]Subject: Government
Topic: Colonialism- Both Positive and Negative Impacts
Class: Intermediate
Term: Second Term (Week 1)
Suitable For: Students & Teachers
Description: This topic (Colonialism- Both Positive and Negative Impacts) has 1 lesson. Students preparing for Government examination (WAEC/NECO/GCE) are advised to read ahead without been limited by a timetable. However, Government class teachers should teach this topic within 1 week depending on your school timetable or schedule.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text][joli-toc][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1626246114000{background-color: #f9f9f9 !important;border-radius: 5px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]Lesson 1
COLONIALISM IN AFRICA
POSITIVE IMPACT OF COLONIALISM
- Military and Technical Aid: Some formal colonial territories especially the French territories, received military and technical aid from their former colonial masters.
- Development of political parties: One of the positive impacts of colonialism was the development of Political Parties. These political parties facilitated the struggle for political independence.
- Common Language: Colonialism promoted the development of common languages among colonial territories: English by those colonized by Britain and French by those colonized by France.
- Uniform Civil Service: The civil service was developed along with that of the British and the French system.
- Common Legal System: There was the development of a common legal system among the colonial territory.
- Development of Infrastructure: Facilities such as roads, railways and electricity were developed to ensure effective administration.
- The emergence of New Elites: Colonialism led to the development of a new set of elites based on educational achievement and political exposure.
- Exposure to Western Education: Colonialism provided access to a new form of education which opened more opportunities for Africans.
- Common Central Bank: With the exception of Guinea, the formal French territories in West Africa had a common Central bank issuing a common currency.
NEGATIVE IMPACT OF COLONIALISM
- Economic Dependence and Exploitation: Africa was being exploited by capital produced by African labour. The colonial masters carried the wealth of West Africa to their home countries thereby impoverishing West Africa.
- Means of Communication: The means of communication were not constructed for Africans. They were built to extract cotton, gold, palm produce, groundnut, cocoa etc.
- Introduction of the Slave Trade, deportation and humiliation of African leaders.
- Colonial education was met to train Africans to administer the local areas at the lowest rank and to staff the private capitalist firms owned by Europeans.
- Erosion of the Power of Traditional Rulers: Traditional rulers were stripped of their real powers and turned into colonial puppets. The traditional rulers became responsible to the colonial government and district officer.
- Production of Cash Crops: They concentrated their efforts in the areas of producing cash crops e.g. cocoa, cotton, , palm produce etc.
- Colonialism Creates Problem of Unity: Colonial rule has divided the countries in West Africa into two major groups- the English speaking and French speaking countries. This is one of the problems facing ECOWAS.
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_raw_html]JTVCd2lkZ2V0JTIwaWQlM0QlMjJjdXN0b21faHRtbC0xMCUyMiU1RA==[/vc_raw_html][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1626247857023{background-color: #a9d68d !important;border-radius: 3px !important;}”][vc_column][vc_column_text]ASSIGNMENT:
- Examine the strength and weaknesses of indirect rule as a colonial policy.
- Highlight the effects of colonial rule on Colonies.
- Define colonialism.
- What are some of the positive impacts of colonialism?
- What are some of the negative impacts of colonialism?
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