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AN EXPLORATION OF AFRICAN ACQUIESCENCE TO COLONIALISM BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS. IN NORTHERN RHODESIA, THE COLONIAL GOVERNMENT MADE MINIMAL DEMANDS & OFFERED MINIMAL SERVICES, RESTING CONTENT WITH EXTRACTING AFRICAN LABOR & TAX. THIS MINIMALISM PROFOUNDLY TRANSFORMED THE CHARACTER OF AFRICAN RURAL COMMUNITIES.

A personal account of a research visit. Discusses political development. (SJO)

It is difficult to separate the idea of Europeans in Africa from that of colonialism in
Africa. This conflation was a feature of the older imperial history, and it also characterizes
more recent schools, such as colonial discourse historiography. Nevertheless,
there were Europeans in Africa before colonization; many Europeans related to Africans
in informal ways even under colonialism; and there have been many thousands of Europeans
in Africa since the end of colonial rule. This article is an attempt to find ways of
writing a history of whites in Africa that is not also a history of colonialism.