WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -This system of governance used indigenous African rulers within the colonial administration, although they often maintained an inferior role. Overall, it was a more cooperative model than direct rule.

Detailed explanation-2: -Indirect rule was the plan to use existing tribal structures and traditions as conduits for establishing rules and regulations while English officials worked behind the scenes and could exercise a veto power.

Detailed explanation-3: -Indirect and direct rule thus had opposite effects on pre-colonial structures of power: indirect rule aimed to preserve them, while direct rule was intended to eradicate and replace them with a new colonial order.

Detailed explanation-4: -Indirect rule was a system where colonial powers used traditional rulers (nchiefso) as the local level of government, empowering them to tax, dispense law and maintain order.

Detailed explanation-5: -In the system of indirect control, the British colonial power used traditional rulers (chiefs) at the local level of government. They were empowered to maintain law and order and to impose the tax. The British colonialists had successfully exploited the essence of tribalism in their colonized regions of the world.