Models Of Colonialism

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Three hundred years ago, some parts of the world we know today did not exist for themselves; they existed for others, under another culture, another race, another nationality. Colonialism has been long fought against and the wars that occurred in the light of freedom paved the way to the world today: interconnected, independent. Just like our mother country, Africa has been one of the notoriously colonized continents from the 17th century up until the early 19th century. Reading John Comaroff’s account on the non-conformist missionaries in North Africa in the early 19th century opened three models of colonialism that occurred in the country.

As Comaroff stated, the types of colonialism can be divided into a triad: the state model, Boer model,
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In a nutshell, it was accomplished by trading with the natives and its leaders; however, the state did not enforce direct governing on the inhabitants while observing the black labourers and their employment. Parallel to the idea is the fact that labour is valued than the welfare, as such, the Prime Minister of the Cape in 1878, Sir Gordon Sprigg, imposed his policy to establish the fact that he wanted more blacks to work and any retaliation was equivalent to punishment wherein the culprits are forced to give up their land. His stand definitely ruled out the blacks’ wellbeing, even stating that they were “to work, not to read and write and sing.”

The second type, the settler colonialism, also known as the Boer model, was perceived to be the big
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The domino effect of events stands proud in the wake of its consequence. In this light, the models were reflections of the world the Europeans envisioned and believed in, in its entirety, bourgeois. It is a common fact that humans evolve: physically, mentally, and emotionally. Revolution is relative, brought upon the wake of conflict and struggle. Like the Philippines, South Africa fought out of the numerous conflicts within the society brought upon by politics, influence, and subordination. Africans battled in the cause of freedom to diminish the conflicts that their oppressors started and reflected the faults of European ideology. It is in the human nature to fight or retort when threatened. In this generation’s context, the topic of separating the ideologies of religion and government is one of the highly sensitive discussions to argue about. Comaroff’s statement regarding the influence of the church in the imperial policies and such strengthened the fact that there are ideas that cannot be flattened out centuries later. There is a limited field of topics that have not evolved, mainly out of the ideology that each side of the story believes in. Furthermore, it is elating that labourers today can exercise their rights and fight against any form of abuse in their line of work. However, frankly speaking, while reading the

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