TRIBE AND NATION –STATE IN AFRICA: COLONIALPOLICY IN AFRICA

Two major interests dominated European colonial son the political economic one of control over resources and the more altruistic one of humanizing the pagan by proselytization both carried on with equal zeal the officially declared objective of extending British interests in East Africa were
a) Establishment if political power or so-called sphere of influence
b) The conversion of Africa is Christianity
c) The development of trade and commerce for the provision of raw materials is expanding endvotry in Great Britain.

In South Africa, the whiles (government) followed a four phased policy for the natives namely 1) Foreign policy 2) Taffies phase 3) Paternalism 4) Integration
The first phase of content had no social annotation to begin with the initial aim was to establish trade relations this period ear led fill about 1909 but during this time white political centric steadily increased British portage and Dubach interests also played up blacks against each other in reality it was more like a
negotiation and power between the white colonists themselves using indigenous political leaders as pawns The second phase is marked by a derive, albeit unachieved on the part of the whites and blacks, followed by a period of contact in which the whites gradually arrowed supremacy. This period was also marked by widespread slave trading the white economic interest was dominated by minerals the white government attitude was purely economic and paternalistic, looking upon blacks in an attitude of tolerance The last phase antinessed almost total political economic centric by the whites a system of integration was formulated, which was based on a doctrine of racial compartmentalization by allotting each race a particular place in the economic and political division of labour and keeping then apart by the policy of strict racial segregation a system of integration based on inter dependence was achieved.
There were extensive restriction on the geographically mobility of Africa and India labour. The “less than human” ideology prevailed exactly as it was during slave trading.