TOPIC 4.COLONIAL SOCIAL SERVICES
COLONIAL SOCIAL SERVICES
Colonial Education
The Objectives of Colonial Education
Analyse
the objectives of colonial education
The aim
of establishing these social services was to consolidate and facilitate
colonisation of Africa. That means they were built to favour the colonial government
in power.
Starting from the 20th century,colonial governments established a number of social
services in Africa. Colonial economy. Examples of these colonial social
services were:
1. Colonial
education
2. Transport
and communication
3. Recreational
services
4. Water
and electricity
5. Health
services
The Features of Colonial Education
Analyse
the features of colonial education
This
was a type of formal education that was introduced by Europeans in Africa. This
education was introduced to benefit the colonial government and not Africans.
It went together with the establishment of schools high economic gain areas
such as crop production areas.
Features of colonial education
1. Colonial
education has a pyramid shape quality. The number of students who started at
lower levels reduced as they went to higher levels.
2. Schools
were built in areas with economic importance, such as the Kenyan highlands
which were a prime are for coffee production.
3. Colonial
education was discriminative in nature e.g. there were Asian schools, European
schools and others for Africans.
4. Colonial
education was provided to the sons of African chiefs e.g. sons of Jumbes and
few daughters obtained this type of education.
5. Schools
were built in urban areas and not rural one because that is where most settlers
were.
6. Education
was basically about European culture e.g. training involved the use of foreign
languages such as English and French.
Role of colonial education
The role of colonial education are as follows:
1. To
train Africans so they may be used as administrators for lowest posts e.g.
messengers and clerks.
2. Colonial
education was introduced to train the sons and daughters of European colonial
masters together with Asians.
3. To
produce African puppets who were brainwashed to favour the colonial government.
The Impact of Colonial Education on African Societies
Assess the
impact of colonial education on African societies
Effects of colonial education
1. It
produced educated elites who organised their fellow Africans to fight for
independence e.g. J.K Nyerere, Kwame Nkrumah.
2. Colonial
education killed Africans' skills at large, these skills remained in theory.
3. It
produced classes between the educated and those who were not educated
4. Colonial
education led to the destruction of the African culture e.g. on dressing and
eating.
5. Africans
began to desire 'White' jobs, education was aimed to make one employable.
Colonial Health
Services
The
Objectives of Colonial Health Services
6.
Analyse the objectives of
colonial health services
The aim of establishing
these social services was to consolidate and facilitate colonization of Africa.
That means they were built to favour the colonial government in power).
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 service as to maintain the minimum healthy standard of
Africa, to continue providing the highly needed labor force to the colonial
productions.
Provision
of Water and Housing Services during the Colonial Era
The Motive for the Provision of Colonial Water and Housing
Services
Explain
the motive for the provision of colonial water and housing services
Colonial
government started to introduce these services to those areas with settlers or
colonial officials.
The
major role of introducing these services was to attract the coming Europeans in
Africa.
During
the colonialism, the Europeans gave priority to their comfort in terms of
provision of water and housing services. The provision of water and housing
during that era was guided by the various rationale, for instance, it was meant
to encourage the European settlement in the colonies, it was distributed
depending on the economic importance of an area, also it provided based on racial
bases.
The Distribution Pattern of Water and Housing Services
Analyse
the distribution pattern of water and housing services
Characteristics of water and housing services
·
Offered on the basis of race,
·
unevenly distributed (depended on the economic value of an
area),
·
areas for labourers had no housing of water services which were
established by colonialists,
·
based on religious grounds (missionary areas had better water)
The Impact of the Provision of Colonial Water and Housing
Services on African Societies
Assess the
impact of the provision of colonial water and housing services on African
societies
Impact of water and housing services included:
·
Reinforced racial classes in colonies,
·
areas without raw materials or colonialists were marginalized
and denied services,
·
created regional imbalances
