European Imperialism In Africa

Imperialism often happens to be done by means of large countries with power and status. Some strong countries who tried colonizing another country believed that the world should be moving in one big harmony with no differences between cultures, but the majority believed that Imperialism is the practice of maintaining an empire. The mother country, the country that colonizes other territories, uses the colonies it took power over in its empire to get raw materials and markets. Some colonized countries benefited from this act but many others were influenced obstructively, countless governments were affected economically and culturally in the light of the fact of the poor choices other countries have chosen. Imperialism has affected countries
The African societies and governments tried to resist the changes forced upon them, but with the difference of technology and financial power, Europe was the one to win. By the twentieth century, most of African civilizations and land were colonized by European nations and approximately ninety percent of the African continent has been controlled by the European powers. In 1884, The Scramble for Africa, the colonisation of African countries, has started. Two of the major countries which led to the colonization of African territories were The United Kingdom and France; they both thought that imperialism was a simple way to carry out their responsibilities to civilize Non-European countries, but it then ended as a competition between European powers for who has the power to rule upon more land and territories. The European Imperialism over Africa was believed to be motivated by economical and political
However, most of these connections occurred at the coastal outposts in Africa. But with the advance of technology and economical power, many European countries saw the opportunity of claiming the African land their own. The difference in technology and war dependent factors helped the powerful countries of Europe in conquering most of the inferior African territories. Europeans turned sub-Saharan Africa into pastures and plantations, and doing so Africans had no choice but to work for their new colonizers to pay their forced taxes to the imperialists and feed their families. Forced to do so, many Africans worked under the European owned businesses and farms, such as the diamond mines of the British financier Cecil Rhodes. Men labored far from home, away from their families, and women remained put in their small villages. Native Europeans were classed at the very top of their new hierarchy, followed by the European educated Africans and at the very bottom were the native Africans who were the manual workers in the society. This shows clearly the lack of rudimentary rights a native resident must have