Conceptions and characterizations of colonialism alter substantially amidst scholars of Africa. Differences and arguments center on four groups of interrelated issues: first, the location and significance of the colonial time span in African history; second, the environment of the colonial meet and its going by car force; third, the typologies of African colonialism; and fourth, the legacies of colonialism for postcolonial Africa. These inquiries have been addressed from a broad kind of disciplinary and analytical traditions. In general, the historiography of colonialism in Africa has been overridden at ...