The main goal of imperialists was to enrich the home countries. They would colonize Africa and use the colonists as cheap labor force, often as slaves, and would produce things that were cheaper and would take all of their resources and sell them or manufacture things from them. This would bring wealth to the colonizer but no wealth to the colony itself.
<span>The French system of colonial government was not centralized. Centralized meaning that they did not control all of their colonial empires, particularly in Africa and Asia, through their main government structure. Instead they opted for indirect rule where through existing local power structures, or trucial states, the day to day government and administration of areas where left in the hands of traditional rulers.</span>
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