COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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Africans were introduced to formal education and Western medicine by Christian missionaries.
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Africans were forced to work on farms and mines owned by Europeans in terrible working conditions.
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The African economic system was changed to a cash crop system, leading to famines in Africa.
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The European colonial powers did not industrialize or modernize Africa.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Colonialism had a huge impact on the lives of Africans. Economic policies were adopted by Europeans who destroyed the colonies, rather than help them. Africa was damaged economically, politically, and culturally. Africa’s traditional lifestyles and culture were destroyed.
Detailed explanation-2: -(2010) further expands on the direct confrontations of colonialism by stating, “[T]he impacts of colonialism were similar, regardless of the specific colonizer: disease; destruction of indigenous social, political, and economic structures; repression; exploitation; land displacement; and land degradation” (p. 37).
Detailed explanation-3: -Colonialism disrupted not only the political organization and economic production of the many African political entities, it also brought forms of cultural alienation, invasion, and disorientation. Control of wealth, natural resources, and cultural products were the main aims of colonialism.
Detailed explanation-4: -Most scholars agree that colonialism, including recurrent epidemics and famines, reduced the population of Central Africa by 30 percent to 50 percent. A slow and uneven recovery started only in the 1940s and 1950s.