ABSTRACT
Our main purpose here will be to consider the effects of the colonial situation on the character of the relations between Mus.: lim and non-Muslim peoples and, despite ( or sometimes because of) the association of colonization with Christianity, the further consolidation and spread of Islam during this period. It need scarcely be added that this is an extremely broad question. In seeking to deal with it we shall find, as in other aspects of the development of Islam in tropical Africa, a similar range of apparently contradictory responses and reactions which reflect the diversity of circumstances and conditions in different regions and at different times during the colonial era. Notwithstanding this, however, certain broad generalizations will emerge.
