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Emergence and growth of nationalism in Africa:Factors for the rise of nationalism in Africa.

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EMERGENCE AND GROWTH OF NATIONALISM IN AFRICA.
Factors for the rise of nationalism in Africa.
(a) The exposure of Africans to severe economic exploitation during the colonial
period. For example land alienation in the Kenya Highlands, in southern Rhodesian, Algeria and South Africa which was accompanied with forced labour.
(b) Africans were fed up of heavy and harsh taxation by the Europeans. They were exposed to heavy
taxation, ranging from hut tax to breast tax in Belgian Congo.
(c) Africans were fed up with the gradual destruction of their culture by the whites. Missionaries totally dismissed the age-old African traditions as being barbaric.
(d) The introduction of racial discrimination to go hand in hand with colonialism. All the best social amenities in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya were reserved for the whites.
(e) Africans resented colonialism because it interfered with their political institutions.
-The colonial rulers disregarded traditional rulers, appointing their own puppets in their place.
(f) The Acquisition of western education by many Africans by 1945 enabled them to articulate their grievances more forcefully and to
understand political developments outside Africa.