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Periodical article | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | French Colonialism and African Resistence in West Africa Up to the First World War |
Author: | Oloruntimehin, B. Olatunji |
Year: | 1973 |
Periodical: | Tarikh |
Volume: | 4 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 24-34 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | French-speaking Africa West Africa |
Subjects: | colonization resistance nationalism History and Exploration colonialism |
Abstract: | African resistance in the first period (of penetration and conquest) was determined mainly by the fact that at the same time a process of empire-building was going on, in which groups resisted being subjected to foreign, even though African, control. The French naturally exploited the existence of such groups. In the second period (of establishing and consolidating) resistance was determined by the mode of colonisation: in the coastal settlements a crop of Africans had emerged who were allowed to take part in the political life, whereas in the other areas colonialism meant a very crude repression of liberties. Bibl., photographs, maps. |