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Why did pre colonial Africa not use guns? - Quora - 1 views

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      maselaelo1 on 25 Apr 23
       
      Illustration shows that Africans had millitary systems and guns during the 1800s.
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Guns and top hats: African resistance in German South West Africa, 1907-191...: EBSCOhost - 0 views

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  • By contrast, this study argues that Africans did indeed have effective means to resist while their motivations were more complex than a uniform anti-colonial spirit.
  • n his account, however, this resistance is more fierce than it is effective.
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      maselaelo1 on 25 Apr 23
       
      Their military forces were used to resist intruders and not to inflict war.
  • After all, the Schutztruppe (Protection Troops) had fought a ruthless war against Herero and Nama speaking pastoralists between 1904-07. During the following eight years Africans did not go to war against German colonialists again.[3] In the light of the brutality of German warfare and post-war rule, the period between 1907-15 has been commonly described as a time of African suffering and misery.
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      maselaelo1 on 25 Apr 23
       
      This is evident that although Africans had millitary forces like their opponents they never used guns and millitary forces to enforce power but only to protect themselves. As a result they came up with creative ways of protecting themselves in ways that made them the laughing stock to the German people which prolonged the advancement of war against the two rivalries.
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  • By contrast, this study argues that Africans did indeed have effective means to resist while their motivations were more complex than a uniform anti-colonial spirit.
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      maselaelo1 on 25 Apr 23
       
      The significance of this highlighted sentence reveals that during the wars and battle with the Westeners Africans did have effective means of millitary forces. However, reasons are yet to be explored as why and how they lost against colonial power.
  • Like the power of the rulers, the resistance of the ruled does not only grow out of the barrel of a gun, but runs the gamut from 'material' to 'symbolic', from gun to top hat.
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      maselaelo1 on 25 Apr 23
       
      Alternatives ways Africans used to resist invaders rather than resorting to violence.
  • n early 1904, the Hereto, Bantu speaking pastoralists in the centre of GSWA, declared war on German colonialists; Cape Dutch and Nama speaking pastoralists in the South followed months later. Over the next three years Germany spent nearly 600 million marks and employed up to 14,000 soldiers in an embarrassingly long war.[
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      maselaelo1 on 25 Apr 23
       
      This evidently reveals that Africans did have means of inflicting war and that they had fully funtional armies with guns and the likes.
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Guns.pdf - 2 views

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  • Guns have reached their highest development under the savagery, not of Africa, but of civilisation, yet the savagery of Africa was using guns long before their deep-mouthed, heavy boom echoed across the battlefields of Europ
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      maselaelo1 on 25 Apr 23
       
      The significance of this quote reveals that the origin of guns was not preceeded by colonialism, and that Africans used guns long before countries over seas. Africans did not learn of guns because of the so caled civilisation.
  • tury.''2 But if Arab chronicles are consulted it will be found that guns were used in the Southern Sudan in the
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      maselaelo1 on 25 Apr 23
       
      Evidence from the Arab traders, that travelled globally for trade disbute the assumption that Europeans were the first to use guns.
  • all
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      maselaelo1 on 25 Apr 23
       
      Africans used guns amongst themselves to settle rivalry scores between different kinships and not to capture and enslave each other.
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  • e. At this date such weapons were unkno
  • The African armies in the next century were far in advance of those of Britain in military equi
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      maselaelo1 on 25 Apr 23
       
      The evidence of this quote reveals that Africans invented their own guns and that Westeners did not introduce guns to Africa.
  • ement which Drake had with the Spaniards off the American coast in 1572, the English crews were armed with only bows and arrows and, when Queen Elizabeth ascended the throne in 1557, the principal weapons in the arsenals of England were bows a
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      maselaelo1 on 25 Apr 23
       
      This quote reveals the type of weaponry Westeners used, which was dated by the crowning of Queen Elizabeth in 1557. And to which, by date, Africans already had guns which they used in battles and wars.
  • The
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      maselaelo1 on 25 Apr 23
       
      The English word "gug" has no particular traceable origin.
  • The English word "gun" used for this product is of unknown etymology. The weapon is not a thousand years old but we do not know whence arose the English word "
  • e Bandig, Bundiq, in Mediterranean Arabic in medieval times). An improved type of firearm was manufactured at Venice and spread thence by commerce through the Eastern Mediterranean, thus reaching the Arabs of North and East Africa, who applied to the new weapon their name for Venice. The w
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      maselaelo1 on 25 Apr 23
       
      This marks evidence that only an advance form of guns was developed in Venice and not it's generic form.
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WO 32/7805: Overseas: South Africa (Code 0(AU)): Preparations for Advance against Boers... - 2 views

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  • I arrived here on the llth instant, and found the force assembled here under Colonel Deane in good health and spirits and in excellent order, and all preparations for an advance being rapidly pushed forward
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      maselaelo1 on 25 Apr 23
       
      The significance of this quoted line reveals how the state of African armies (particularly the southern part) were advance and their plans of repression against the the Boer's and apartheid which is a by product of colonialism.
  • The Naval Brigade, 2 guns R.A., Head-Quarters of the 60th Regiment, drafts of the 21st, 58th, 60th, and 94th Regiments, and mounted troops have since arrived.
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      maselaelo1 on 25 Apr 23
       
      This is evident from the handwritten source that African's were able to use guns and military equipment as well as an operational army. And, the guns and all the military equipment involved was not used to enforce dictatorship but to defend and fight back the invasion of the Boers against their freedom.
  • Two men of the Natal Mounted Police, on patrol within Natal territory, were captured by a Boer patrol a few days ago.
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      maselaelo1 on 25 Apr 23
       
      The significance of this quote reveals the marginal lines between the Natal forces as well as the Boers and gives reason to the advancement of the attack towards the Boers. This gives evidence that African's had skilled armed forces, soldiers and troops and guns during the 1800s and they were not clueless like other unreliable sources claim.
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  • The fact of Captain Elliott having been killed as described has since been confirmed by the finding of his body with four bullet wounds in it
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      maselaelo1 on 25 Apr 23
       
      This quote further reveals that during the 1800s opposing parties mostly used guns as their form of protecting themselves and eliminating their oppositions. Either to inflict violence so as to accomplish dictatorship or the opposite party protecting itself from that and their freedom.
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