COLONIAL ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM

COLONIAL ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM, this were the style or approaches adopted by imperialist power to ensure effective control of the colonies. It should be noted that the Berlin conference of 1884-1885 legalized the imposition of colonialism from the costal strips to the inter land of Africa stressing on the effective occupation, that meant the establishment of strong and stable colonial administrative structures as the basic prerequisite to effective administration of the colonies. 

It is therefore meant that the colonial masters could make through assessment of the situations, circumstances and the nature of the colonized people (colonial subject) in the particular colony before choosing the colonial administrative approach/style to be established in the colony. The following are the administrative approach/styles that were adopted by the colonial powers in the early twentieth century to administer African colonies, DIRECT RULE, INDIRECT RULE, ASSIMILATION POLICY, ASSOCIATION..., The c

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