African History

The 1929 Aba women’s riot was one outstanding attempt to resist colonial policies and control of the British against the local Nigerians. This was very outstanding due to the creative and highly recognized role played by women in the disturbance. This happened under the British control which had Lord Fredrick Lugard as the British governor of the British colonized Nigeria. The British failed to understand the cultural make of most of their African colonies and believed that indirect rule was practicable in most places. The south eastern part of present day Nigerian had was not very suitable for the holistic implementation of the Indirect rule system and the British had little of know knowledge of that. The British went ahead to great chiefs in a place where that practically used classical democracy where no one person can be said to have the views of every body but majority decisions stands. Lord Lugard did not realize that the people in this region were not used to taking orders from...

Egypt is one of the places in the world that witnessed a great number of external forces influences within its territories. This can be characterized by the so many external powers to have control or operated within Egypt within some time in their history. The position of Egypt and its encounter to some major political, developmental and religious theories encouraged the increased external forces influences and operations. One can point out how the Suez Canal propelled a whole lot conflicts geared towards its control, which in turned made Egypt a playing ground for power seeking and imperialist around the world. Before 2850 BC Egypt was organized into two kingdoms which comprises of the Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt. Not much was known historically about the developments as at that period. Early Egyptian culture was based more on villages, agrarian life. Capitals were fixed based on the resident of the Kings. This created a situation where Memphis, Lisht, Thebes all served as capitals ...

The socio-political and economic challenges faced by Britain in administering their colonies were very many. This brought about their needs to re-organize their political strategies in the administration processes. The reality was that the British tried to create British styled administrative systems in most of their colonies but failed. The reality was that in British African colonies, the challenges faced by the British differ. For instance, in Nigeria the British saw that they faced different challenges in different parts of Nigeria. Before the introduction of the indirect rule system by the British, they made a whole lot of mistakes. They failed to understand the culture of Africans in their duties. They thought that African have the same cultural orientation. They do not know the richness and sensitivity of the cultures of most parts of Africa. For this reason they encountered very great oppositions in most places in Africa during the colonial period. The multiple resistance whi...