G8: Imperialism: Britain

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It was an agreement that specified relations between Buganda and the British but it also caused an overnight political, economic revolution over land and would become a cog in efforts to create a republican state in Uganda.

In 1894 the British government assumed power, declaring Baganda a protectorate. This protectorate was expanded in 1896 to include areas of the Bunyoro, Toro, Ankole and Bugosa. Colonial rule altered local economic systems dramatically, partly because Britain's principal concern was financial. T

Uganda was deep within the interior of the Africa. It had commercial relationships with Zanzibar on the East African coast usually in the forms of slaves and ivory. Technically it was part of the Zanzibar sphere of influence, although the Sultan's powers and representatives rarely reached this far.

Johnston's Buganda Agreement of 1900 imposed a tax on huts and guns, designated the chiefs as tax collectors, and testified to the continued alliance of British and Baganda interests.

the reasons behind Britain annexation of modern-day Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

Somaliland had long come to the attention of the British from their strategically vital base at Aden. They had occupied this Arabian port since 1839 but became familiar with the hostile coast with its slave trading and warring tribes opposite.

The protectorate was administered from British India until 1898, then by the Foreign Office, and after 1905 the Colonial Office.

The British East African Company was granted a charter in 1888, which led to the colonization of present day Kenya.

In the late 1800s, the British presence was still relatively new to the Kenyans and the tribes functioned independently so they responded differently to the encroaching British colonists.

When European employers attempted to cut the wages of their indigenous employees in 1921, workers staged mass protests and demonstrations.

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The English move into the land of the Igbo followed shortly thereafter, covering the period from 1889-1914. And, in 1914, northern and southern Nigeria were united for administrative purposes into a single British colony.

The History of Nigeria from about 1849 until it attained independence in 1960 is largely the story of the transformational impact of the British on the people and cultures of the Niger-Benue area. The colonial authorities who came to these parts of West Africa in the years between 1862 and 1960, sought to define, protect, and realize their imperial interests. T

Before colonization, diverse ethnic groups were governed by local leaders, each with its own governance system. The formation of the northern and southern protectorates disrupted these indigenous structures.

Looks at how the British saw Nigeria as a profit making entity, not as a people and land with a right to exist as individuals.

The British project of repatriating freed slaves in the ‘Province of Freedom’, now known as Sierra Leone, can be linked to development challenges facing the country today.

Under the British, little economic development was undertaken in the protectorate until the 1950s, although a railroad was built and the production for export of palm products and peanuts was encouraged.

The largest source of settlers to Sierra Leone came from captured slave ships. When the British Navy began suppressing the Atlantic slave trade in 1808 there was a problem of what to do with the liberated slaves. It was not feasible to return them to their homelands. On the other hand there was no place for them in the European countries. Sierra Leone was the solution. These liberated Africans were called "recaptured slaves."