HISTORY.FORM THREE
HISTORY.FORM THREE
TOPIC 4
COLONIAL SOCIAL SERVICES.
Was
the services which introduced by colonial government in 19century to ensure
Colonial exploitation in Africa by introduce many social services objectives. The
aims of establish these social services was to consolidate and facilitate
colonization of africa.means that they were built to favor the colonial
government settlers.
Example
of colonial social services introduce by colonialist in social services as
follows
i.
Colonial education
ii.
Water and housing services
iii.
Colonial health services
Colonial education
Was
a type of formal education that was introduced by Europeans or colonialist in
africa but for the benefit the colonial government and not africans.want
together with the establishment of schools high economic gain areas such as
crop production areas.
Features of colonial education
a. Colonial
education were the pyramid shape. That means the number of students who started
at lower level reduced as they went to higher level.
b. Colonial
education were built schools in area with economic importance such as Kenyan
highlands which special for coffee production.
c. Colonial
education was provided to the sons of African chiefs.eg sons of jumbes and few
daughter obtained this type of education
d. School
were built in urban areas and rural
not area because where most settlers.
e. Education
was based on European culture.eg training involve the use of foreign language
such as English.
Role of Colonial education
a. To
train Africans because can used as administrators for the lowest ports eg
messengers and cheeks.
b. Colonial
education was introduced to train the sons and daughters of European colonial
master together with Asians
c. To
produce Africa puppets
Impact of colonial education
a. It
produced educated people who organised their fellow Africans to fight for
independence.eg J.k Nyerere.
b. It
kill education of Africa because the African education remained in theory.
c. It
produced classes between educated and
non educated
d. Colonial
education led destruction of the African culture.egdressing and dancing
Colonial health services
Were
established in the colonial state to serve colonial administrators,
missionaries and traders as their primary aim. Also some Africans were served
by the colonial healthy services as to maintain the minimum healthy standard of
African, to continue providing the highly needed labor force to the colonial
productions.
Colonial water and housing services
The
mojor role of introducing these services was to attract the coming Europeans in
africa.water and housing services was the provision of water and housing during
that era was guided by the various rationale.forinstance
a. To
encourage the European settlement in the colonies
b. Provided
based on racial bases
c. It
was distributed depending on the economic importance of an area.
d. The
distribution pattern of water and housing services
The
following was the characteristics of water and housing services
a) Based
on race
b) Depended
on the economic value of an area
c) Areas
for labourers had no housing of water services which were established by
colonialists
d) Based
on religious grounds .eg missionary areas had better water.
e) Impact
of the provision of colonial water and housing services on Africa societies.
f) Reinforced
racial, classes in colonies
g) Colonialists
were marginalized and denied services created regional imbalances.
Common
question on this topic
a. analyse
the objective of colonial education.
b. Analyse
the features of colonial education.
c. Analyse
the distribution pattern of water and housing services.
d. Analyse
the objective of colonial health services.
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