Elements Of Colonialism In Africa

Colonialism is the term which originated from the Latin word which means colonus meaning farmer. This is a practice of domination, which includes the over-take of power from one person to another. Colonialism involves economic and political control over a certain territory. According to Longman ‘’colonialism ‘’ is when a powerful country rules a powerless country and beings its own society and trade force in that territory.

Example in the 1400s to 1800, European countries started to notice the coastal regions of Africa, they later begin to engage in commerce with the local people in Africa. In the early 1700s the relationship between the two continents increased which was mainly caused the slave trade between the two. In 1798 the British finally

It operates through applications of the military legislative power and mostly important also though economic. In generally it can be said it’s the ongoing process of the economic mode of colonialism after the colonize territory has achieved its independence.

The term was mostly referred African nations, when the European nation have colonized the whole of African countries they managed to establish a system of economic exploitation in which African’s minerals and raw materials were being exported with the purpose of European to make more money.

Indigenous Education refers to the process used by the indigenous people to educate their young children helping them to gain full knowledge, skills and attitude on how to value they community and themselves.

One of the major example of indigenous education in Africa was that all boys were taught by their fathers how to hunt and how to protect and take care of their life stock on the other hand girls were taught by their mothers how to do kitchen chores and also how to gather wild

According to Farid (2005) its main idea was the modernization of social life through science and technological advance. The missionaries firstly encouraged western education and I later I was encouraged by the colonist to all the parts of Africa. This system differentiated religion and life and strongly focused more on human ability of reasoning and also on materialism rather than spiritual inspiration. The system did not consider one’s relationship with God and human intellectually relevance. Before the western education was introduced in Africa the teaching process was mostly the basic method where by one learns from practicing and emphasize on equal opportunity to all, once the European introduce the western education many aspect changed in many fundamental ways . Western education become the center stage in Africa, challenging debasing and changing the tradition along with its foundation. Before the introduction of the western education, science and technology were seen as the most important in the area of studying at tertiary level but since the system was introduced new training programs in the field of adult education. Because of the introduction western education Africa has been involved in lifestyle of elite do not inspire or respect for the pervious knowledge African people had. This system has led to the lack of awareness traditional policy in the African society. In 1951 students who