REASONS FOR APPLICATION OF DIRECT RULE

 (discuss the factors for the use of direct rule) Firstly Intensive resistance, the colonies that had experienced with African resistance during the imposition of colonial rule forced the colonialist to use direct rule in attempts to suppress faster African resistance e.g The Germans were compelled to use direct rule to imposition of the hehe, in Swahili traders in Tanganyika, Nama and Herero in Namibia.

 Secondly presence of large settler populations, the colonial state wanted to safeguards the interest of the settlers in setter colonies to enable them gain ultimate and control over the economies and exploit valuable African resistances such as farms, land and minerals E.g British established direct rule in Zimbabwe and Kenya to safeguards settlers. Thirdly negligence of the traditional authorities by the colonial administration, The German, Belgium and Portuguese believed that Africans were inferior and their Administrative system were very inef

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