Paternalism

European powers wanted a more direct control of their colonies; they viewed Africans as children that were unable to handle the difficulties of running a country, so the developed paternalism. Paternalism is a policy of treating subject people as if they were children, providing for their needs, but not giving them their rights. In order to accomplish this policy, the Europeans brought their own bureaucrats to Africa and didn't train the local people in the European methods of governing. An example of paternalism is the French colony Somaliland.


The Somaliland Flag