African American Imperialism In The Late 1870's

In the late 1870's the major European powers look towards Imperialistic ideals as a way to strengthen their economy and gain the upper hand in the industrial revolution. This outlook stemmed towards creating new colonies and naturally Africa, the closest landmass to Europe was invaded first.

There has been Europeans holding in africa going back past the fall of Constantinople but it wasn't until the introduction of colonies as areas of monetary value and prestige that they really started to get out of control around the world. This leads to a wild annexation and claim of the major European nations on African soil.

Imperialism itself happens for many reasons to the European community. It is embraced as a way to boost nations economies
Although slavery has been made illegal in most African states it also pressures the freed people into welcoming the Europeans with open arms thus actually enslaving them again just under a different master.

With Africa's forced consent to European rule they start the drain of there resources and the creation of a stagnant economy that has to rely upon its ruling country for aid. The ruling country in turn has free reign to fully exploit the resources of the colony in a way that creates gigantic profit for them but leads to a declining rate of living by the African people and harsh working conditions. Because of this the African population began to become poverty stricken. Disease spread at a greater rate and yearly death rates began to rise.

Normally these things could be countered but the colonies faced to bad factors. One being either the neglect or plain not caring of the mother nations in their colonies efforts only in their profits and the African Tribes.

When Africa was split up by the Europeans in the Berlin Conference of 1885 they overlooked one major fact that has created an out of control continent to this very day. When creating these new boundaries they overlooked the fundamental fact of the placement of the pre-existing african tribes and
That itself has been illustrated quite well numerous times, the conflict that springs quickest to my mind being the Rwandan Genocide in 1994. in April of 1994 the president of Rwanda Habyarimana was killed in a plane crash, this lead to the country having no leader and racial strife began to break out between the Tutsi peoples and the Hutus. This unfortunately led to a genocide of the Tutsi people. An estimated 500.000 tsutsi's were executed and a total of 800,000 to 1,000,000 people in total lost there lives to the