Colonial authorities confined Africans to arid reserves in lands they had not previously inhabited

Evidence

As the new colonial administration expropriated all the prime farmland, it also drove Africans into arid areas, known in Rhodesian parlance as native reserves. The first of these, Gwai and Shangani, were designated in 1894 at the behest of a British government Order-in-Council which compelled Rhodes and the British South Africa Company (BSAC) to put aside land for Africans. As Chiwome (1996) notes, these reserves, like all the others that came after them, were generally located in the regions of the country that Africans seldom settled in before the arrival of the colonizers. — Tavengwa Gwekwerere, Davie E. Mutasa, and Kudakwashe Chitofiri, Settlers, Rhodesians, and Supremacists, 17

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial origin theories were used to deny Africans land rights — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 329; Colonial administrators reimposed concessionary-style forced cotton cultivation in West Africa — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 816

Broader Connections

• Colonial origin theories were used to deny Africans land rights #corroborates (0.75) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 329
• Colonial administrators reimposed concessionary-style forced cotton cultivation in West Africa #exemplifies (0.72) — Alice L. Conklin, A Mission to Civilize_ The Republican…, 816