ABSTRACT
The interaction between Africans and the British in the context of Victorian imperialism was not a smooth affair. An attempt is made to survey the content of African criticism of Victorian imperialism and to assess its impact and effect on the development of Anglo-African relations in the colonial context of the nineteenth century. Many works exist on British attitudes towards Africa in the Victorian period. There were several cases of African rulers who were deported to other African colonies under British control. African rulers who refused to succumb to the exigencies of British imperialism were arrested or treacherously trapped and deported from their own countries. Most of the newspapers edited by Africans in the nineteenth century were organs of political protest. The protest that they championed was not uniform in degree, but it was identical in its subject, the oppressive nature of Victorian imperialism.
