Africa

Question 1

indirect rule

Answer 1

British, the colonies should be governed through collaboration with local elites

Question 2

direct rule

Answer 2

French, the colonies should become regions in larger France, Africans should be assimilated and indigenous institutions abolished

Question 3

Direct rule in practice

Answer 3

French monitored performance of local authorities, chiefs were given a fixed percentage of the total amount of taxes collected. Chiefs had an interest in maintaining the system intact and collaborate with:
The local populations to ensure a willingness to pay taxes; The French colonisers (to ensure that the powers of the chiefs were protected)

Question 4

Indirect rule in practice

Answer 4

British monitored effort and paid them a fixed salary, this latter gave the British limited control over tax collection compared to France. he payment of a fixed wage gave chiefs an incentive to collect as much taxes as possible and at the same time keep much of the collected revenues in his own pockets.

Question 5

Direct taxes

Answer 5

Were more common in French Africa compared to British Africa

Question 6

non-settler colonies

Answer 6

the settlers did not have direct control over local politics, which did not necessarily mean that the economic and political interests of the settlers were overlooked.

Question 7

settler colonies

Answer 7

colonizers invade and occupy territory to permanently replace the existing society with the society of the colonizers

Question 8

factor endowments

Answer 8

The amount of land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship that a country possesses