Colonial conquest destroyed pre-colonial reciprocal governance traditions in Africa

Evidence

Colonial domination, as we have seen, gives rise to and continues to dictate a whole complex of resentful behavior and of refusal on the part of the colonized. The colonized exerts a considerable effort to keep away from the colonial world, not to expose himself to any action of the conqueror. In everyday life, however, the colonized and the colonizers are constantly establishing bonds of economic, technical, and administrative dependence. Colonialism obviously throws all the elements of native society into confusion. The dominant group arrives with its values and imposes them with such violence that the very life of the colonized can manifest itself only defensively, in a more or less clandestine way. Under these conditions, colonial domination distorts the very relations that the colonized maintains with his own culture. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421 (#expands, via linked claim)

What is true is that under normal conditions, an interaction must exist between the family and society at large. The home is the basis of the truth of society, but society authenticates and legitimizes the family. The colonial structure is the very negation of this reciprocal justification. The Algerian woman, in imposing such a restriction on herself, in choosing a form of existence limited in scope, was deepening her consciousness of struggle and preparing for combat. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 230 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial violence destroyed traditional mourning rites by making every death colonial; Colonization destroyed African social foundations without providing replacements.; French colonial administration layered circles over African chiefdoms with chiefs below French heads. (+13 more)

Related

• Colonization destroyed African social foundations without providing replacements. (similarity 0.88)
• French colonial peace eroded village cohesion and elder authority (similarity 0.87)
• Colonial rule breaks the reciprocal relation between family and society (similarity 0.85)
• Colonial violence destroyed traditional mourning rites by making every death colonial (similarity 0.83)
• Colonialism functions as a coherent system requiring economic, political, and cultural domination. (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial color-class hierarchies enforced within families can destroy colonized subjects (similarity 0.81)
• Bantu Philosophy challenged the colonial paternalism underpinning mission methods (similarity 0.81)
• Colonial power relations were gendered and psychoanalytically structured (similarity 0.80)
• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions (similarity 0.80)
• Utopian agrarian models were inverted in the colonies to enforce property and marriage. (similarity 0.79)
• Cultural hybridity is unavoidable and shaped by unequal colonial power relations (similarity 0.79)
• Colonial relations dehumanize colonizer and colonized alike (similarity 0.78)
• Colonial ethnography reduces African rites to obscene primitive spectacle (similarity 0.78)
• Colonized cultures became conscripts of modernity, not fixed essences. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Colonial domination distorts the colonized’s relationship with their own culture and traditions #expands (0.80) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 421
• Colonial rule breaks the reciprocal relation between family and society #expands (0.70) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 230
• Slavery formed the demographic and economic backbone of precolonial West African states #qualifies (0.50)