Types of Colonial Rule

Economic Companies

British East Africa Company British South Africa Company

Direct Rule

policies of assimilation

"civilizing" African societies

strategy of "divide and rule"

Indirect Rule used indigenous African

rulers within the colonial administration

cooperative model

all Africans were organized as "tribes" with chiefs

increased divisions between ethnic groups

gave power to certain "big men" who had never had it before in pre-colonial history

Settler Rule significant number of

immigrants from Europe

planned to make the colonies their permanent home

demanded special political and economic rights and protection

economic exploitation and political oppression of the African population