WORLD WAR II
DECOLONIZATION PHASE
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Question
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Inexperienced leaders in African countries
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Many African countries were undeveloped
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Many African economies are based on agriculture
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Many African nations thrived after independence
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Detailed explanation-1: -Negative effects The Africans lost their political independence. Some traditional political institutions were destroyed and replaced with foreign ones. Foreign culture was imposed on Africans without regard for their own culture.
Detailed explanation-2: -Colonialism’s impacts include environmental degradation, the spread of disease, economic instability, ethnic rivalries, and human rights violations-issues that can long outlast one group’s colonial rule.
Detailed explanation-3: -(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).