There were also differences between the two new colonial powers themselves. "The British colonial system was what they call indirect rule, the French system was more direct rule," Lundt said.

Peter Geschiere, Chiefs and Colonial Rule in Cameroon: Inventing Chieftaincy, French and British Style, Africa: Journal of the International African Institute, Vol. 63, No. 2 (1993), pp. 151-175 ...

As a result of the policy of indirect rule which British administrators introduced into the Colony of the Gold Coast at the turn of the twentieth century, customary courts, or what were called Native ...