Colonial powers deliberately omitted African revolts from official records

Evidence

In Africa itself, the same historical tradition was no less apparent in the nineteenth century. But we must also keep in mind the warning issued by C. L. R. James and George Padmore that it was the colonial habit not to maintain a very close record of these events: … The difficulty… is to get accounts written in any detail. The British send out their punitive expeditions against revolting tribes and do not necessarily mention them in the annual colonial reports. But if the revolt awakens public interest, a commission will investigate and make a report. This report will frequently clash violently with the accounts of participants, eye-witnesses, correspondents of newspapers, native and European, and persons living in the colony at the time. The French and Belgians, however, publish little of this kind. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 820

Categorization

• QUESTION: Which specific nineteenth-century African revolts survived only in non-official accounts, waiting to be recovered?
• XREF: Connects to Robinson’s broader thesis about the erasure of Black resistance history that the whole book seeks to recover. — connects to: No instance shows non-European agency rebuffing the colonial assault