"Africans Did Not Resist Colonialism": In Response to Ken Henshaw - Emeka Esogbue It is wrong, misleading and a clear absence of knowledge of African colonial history to avouch that Africans have no culture of resistance and to go ahead to ignorantly spread the implication to be the reason slave trade lasted for 400 years without resistance and colonialism lasting 200 years without resistance. Mr. Ken Henshaw never demonstrated clear sense of history of the resistance to slave trade and imperialism by Africans. Slave trade and colonialism are to be separated from oppressive tendencies reasoned in the Nigerian type of democracy. This was what he failed to consider. The former involves foreign relations while the latter is about internal relations - foreign oppression and internal oppression differentially. In 1854, in the Tokolor Empire of Senegal, Umar raised thousands of army against the French. Although he was killed in the battle of Medina in 1684, he had resisted the Fre...
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