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Title:French Colonialism and African Resistence in West Africa Up to the First World War
Author:Oloruntimehin, B. OlatunjiISNI
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.
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