Back in early African history, Europeans colonized and infiltrated African civilizations in order to make a profit and to be known as a superior nation. By doing this, European colonists changed and transformed the traditional African lifestyle. African’s were willing to let the colonists join them, but the Europeans went too far when they took over governments and tried to rule over the Africans. This colonization led to many problems in Africa that still affect modern day Africa. According to the European Colonization map,

it shows that France and Great Britain ruled most of the Northern Part of Africa.

What Gandhi did in India is similar to what was going on in Algeria. Even though both Algerians and Gandhi ended up keeping some of the things they learned from western culture, they still tried to get their independence, and to restore their traditions and culture.

The process of French colonization in Algeria was anything but the “laissez-faire” system. The French never made any attempts of equality or justice, and colonization was always meant to make the French masters of the country. It was a full-scale campaign of terror and intimidation designed to politically, economically, and physically crush the indigenous population and annihilate their culture and national identity by any means necessary. The French believed that it was crucial to import European moral and social values amongst the Algerian Muslims in order to enlighten them and render them able to overcome fanaticism and to appreciate the civilizing mission of France. For some reason at the time Europeans thought of themselves as the most civilized. According to traditional French colonial doctrine, this colonial penetration must transform the way of life of the natives.

Back in India, Gandhi became a leader in the struggle for home rule. He launched his movement of passive resistance against the British gaining millions of followers. A demonstration against Rowlett Acts, which gave sweeping powers to the colonial authorities, resulted in a massacre of Indians in Amritsar by British soldiers. When the British Government failed to amend the act, Gandhiji proclaimed an organized campaign of non co-operation. People boycotted public offices, government agencies schools etc. His swaraj movement advocated the boycott of British goods and revival of cottage industries. He lived a spiritual and ascetic life of prayers, fasting and meditation and advocated non-violence. Gandhi became the international symbol of free India.

The end of military control heralded little change in the inherent inequities of the system. Under civilian French rule beginning in 1870, “the Muslims in Algeria had no alternative but to attempt to live in a society whose political and economic structures were geared to serve the interests of the settler community, and whose educational system was designed to submerge the Arab-Islamic identity. Under the Code de l’indigénat, Algerian Muslims were held under extremely repressive procedures that l

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