British Colonial Policies in Kagarko District, 1902 – 1960

Abstract

The British in their quest to carry out colonial interests in its colonies, enacted policies to  enable them succeed in such quest. Among these colonial policies were those on land, labour, agriculture and taxation. Each of these policies enacted ensured the successful plunder and exploitation of the colonized territories of Britain. These policies were used to capture and repatriate the wealth of the plundered (colonized) back to Europe. So while the colonized became impoverished during and after the colonial periods respectively, the colonialists became more buoyant economically and politically. More so, these policies were deliberately designed to establish an imbalanced relationship between the colonized and the colonizer. The impact of British colonial policies affected the fabric of the society with particular reference to Kagarko District, 1902 – 1960. This paper examined the implications of these colonial policies on Kagarko District, which ascertained the fact that colonialism was a one armed bandit as posited by Walter Rodney in his book, How Europe underdeveloped Africa. It is also important to note that colonialism interrupted the lifestyle of the people of Kagarko District in order to serve British
imperial interest.