I truly don't understand why the native people would cooperate with the foreign settlers. They get to their land, take it over and make those people work for them, they didn't have to because it's their land and they survived well without white foreigners there... They obviously outnumber the settlers, so they could just revolt against them.
So I simply can't understand why they accepted to be ruled by strangers for such a long time.
"Survived well..."
How naive. In some remote from real troubles place you must live then.
Look out of your window. Don't see huge waves of emigrants from this Happy Continent yet?
But it's only matter of time.
1.They had inferior weapons, tactics, infrastructure, they were not as organized etc...
2.There is a reason it's called colonization and not conquest of Africa.Most of the land was free to claim, it was not owned by anyone except some small parts claimed by local tribes.
3.But "they" don't exist in the way you think, people living there at the time Europeans arrived were not united, they were mostly living tribal life and those tribes didn't like each other any more than they liked Europeans.Zulus were the only one who actually offered some mild resistance, but they didn't stand a chance in the long run.
4.Also I imagine natives themselves perceived Europeans as superior, they were pretty ignorant of Europe except that they knew Europeans had superior weapons, and were always bringing some new toys with them that seemed out of this world for natives.
They didn't even know what was their oppressors true capacity for war, and if they somehow defeat those already in Africa will even more Europeans arrive.Resistance seemed futile I guess.
EDIT: Oh and this was the beginning of 20th century, at this time they really had no choice, they could work for Europeans and maybe even get something for it(like weapons that help them defeat some other tribe) or resist and lose their land or their lives.
Low IQs. Didn't know any better, really. Besides the white man brought medicine, better ways to get food, and exciting new toys. They were better off working for the white man and they knew it.
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