How did Africans respond to European colonization?
How did Africans respond to European colonization?
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The terms ‘resistance’ and ‘collaboration’ have been used to
classify African responses towards colonialism; those who resisted
(in various forms) the occupying forces, and those who submitted to
or worked with those powers.
Once occupied especially in Sub Saharan Africa they have either
withdrawn their labour from the colonialists.Refused to pay
colonial head/hut tax, this was a tax system designed to force
Africans who lived off the land into the cash economy controlled by
the colonialists.These actions have generally lead to uprisings as
a result of brutal colonial repression as a result. In the 1900s
Africans began colonial wars of liberation seeking national self
determination
Some Africans collabrated because of military weaknesses. They
realized that the Europeans had better weapons and methods of
fighting. They feared that fighting them would put their
independence at risk.They responded with friendship to protect
their social,political and economic organization.
1.How did the people of Ghana lived before the intrusion of the
European colonization?
a. How did the intrusion alters their way of living? b.After
independence, how are they living now
c. Predict the future of that country and how their economic
lives will be
( I want a 4 page essay on this assignment about the people of
Ghana in West Africa)
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