Put it in a more historical perspective, when the Europeans began work on their empire's, there were only 4 continents where there was mass capitulation and/or submission:
North and South America, Oceania and Africa
The middle east managed to largely hold out, Asia only really suffered thanks to the technological superiority of the Europeans and even then a lot of areas remained under local rule while places like India only were taken thanks to different people siding with the Europeans.
Africa had centuries of contact with both the Arabs and Europeans and yet did not build and develop in a way to resist them, except if I'm remembering Ethiopia but they suffered later thanks to Italy and chemical weapons...
Resist? Ghana begged the UK to administrate their country. The local king could see the advantages of being an English colony.
The UK initially refused, because they didn't want to make the investment.
Africans would much rather have been subjects of the crown, with all the rights and privileges that conferred, than being conquered by the neighboring tribes and sold as slaves; which was very much a reality for many.
The quality of life of the colonial subjects shot up immediately after the colonial power moved in. They plummeted the minute the colony was abandoned. Ask Cambodia how that turned out for them.
Put it in a more historical perspective, when the Europeans began work on their empire's, there were only 4 continents where there was mass capitulation and/or submission:
North and South America, Oceania and Africa
The middle east managed to largely hold out, Asia only really suffered thanks to the technological superiority of the Europeans and even then a lot of areas remained under local rule while places like India only were taken thanks to different people siding with the Europeans.
Africa had centuries of contact with both the Arabs and Europeans and yet did not build and develop in a way to resist them, except if I'm remembering Ethiopia but they suffered later thanks to Italy and chemical weapons...
Resist? Ghana begged the UK to administrate their country. The local king could see the advantages of being an English colony.
The UK initially refused, because they didn't want to make the investment.
Africans would much rather have been subjects of the crown, with all the rights and privileges that conferred, than being conquered by the neighboring tribes and sold as slaves; which was very much a reality for many.
The quality of life of the colonial subjects shot up immediately after the colonial power moved in. They plummeted the minute the colony was abandoned. Ask Cambodia how that turned out for them.