Colonial impacts over Rwanda
The first to colonize Rwanda and attempt to use and encourage the resources for tea and coffee for further economic development of the country, was Germany around 1900. Also to experience occupancy was the case of Burundi, the neighbor of Rwanda. Upon the Germans coming to the African lands, they attempted to make use of short treaties with the rule authorities (mwami), which were bound to grant protection. Upon the German’s arrival, they noticed that the various kingdoms throughout the land controlled small portions of the population, through this one of their main targets became the search for a method by which they could favor the gathering of power in one spot, without having to deal with all the different rulers which could only address a small part of the population.
The final outcome of the above mentioned quests did not have a positive side in the case of Germany, as they didn’t manage to find a …show more content…
As stated by Mamdani Mahmood in his book, colonialism in Rwanda was “the white man’s burden. Said to signify the pinnacle of Western civilization, the modern state was considered testimony to the organizing genius of Western man. The architecture of modern state was inscribed in modern law, Wester law. And rule of law was in turn central to the construction of civilized society, in short, civil society. “ (Mamdani, 2002)
Therefore, we understand that trough Belgium’s policy over the new colony which was voiced over the course of 40 years, Belgian administration made an attempt to apply a certain set of rules to a country with values highly different from the Wester ones, which could not be adapted successfully to the
The first to colonize Rwanda and attempt to use and encourage the resources for tea and coffee for further economic development of the country, was Germany around 1900. Also to experience occupancy was the case of Burundi, the neighbor of Rwanda. Upon the Germans coming to the African lands, they attempted to make use of short treaties with the rule authorities (mwami), which were bound to grant protection. Upon the German’s arrival, they noticed that the various kingdoms throughout the land controlled small portions of the population, through this one of their main targets became the search for a method by which they could favor the gathering of power in one spot, without having to deal with all the different rulers which could only address a small part of the population.
The final outcome of the above mentioned quests did not have a positive side in the case of Germany, as they didn’t manage to find a …show more content…
As stated by Mamdani Mahmood in his book, colonialism in Rwanda was “the white man’s burden. Said to signify the pinnacle of Western civilization, the modern state was considered testimony to the organizing genius of Western man. The architecture of modern state was inscribed in modern law, Wester law. And rule of law was in turn central to the construction of civilized society, in short, civil society. “ (Mamdani, 2002)
Therefore, we understand that trough Belgium’s policy over the new colony which was voiced over the course of 40 years, Belgian administration made an attempt to apply a certain set of rules to a country with values highly different from the Wester ones, which could not be adapted successfully to the