- SIGNING OF TREATIES
Some Europeans based their claim to African territories signed with the African rulers.Most of the treaties were fake as they were obtained through briberies, intimidation and persuasion.
- MILITARY CONQUEST
Most territories were colonized through outright military conquest. The European launched military attacks on the Africans territories which were defeated ans subjugated e.g French invasion empire of samori in the 1830, Tunisia 1881 and mandika empire of samori in the 1890.
- GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY/THREAT OF WAR
This entailed the use of intimidation whereby the European fired shot in their ship along the coast to simply frighten the Africans. Some brought giant boats and ships that impressed the fricans who, out of fear, accepted to surrender their territories to the Europeans e.g The British consult, John Kick used the British flect to force the Sultan of Zanzibar to surrender his island to British in 1873. The British also employed gunboat diplomacy to acquire territories at the Bight of Benin and Bight of Bafia in West Africa during the 1880.
- THE MANDATORY SYSTEM
This method was introduced after the First World War on internantional conference. Other clash which came uplate included
- The Fashada crisis of 1898 between Britian and France.
- France and Germany over morocco (tangiers/incident) in 1905.
- The anglo-French rivery in Buganda in 1980.
