Europeans Came To Africa Cause And Effect Essay

This episode of the series was truly enlightening on what happened when the Europeans came to Africa. In addition, to why they came to the continent in the first place. I knew one reason they came was to take blacks to America to work as slaves on the newly discovered continent with plentiful resources. But, I didn’t know that they also went in order to bring the gospel to Africa. Which was I very interesting notion that I had not thought of before. The episode also showed us how much modern fire power affected Africa and all the sorrows that it brought with it.

I was surprised to learn just how big of an impact the arrival of Europeans had on Africa. And that their arrival was the biggest calamity that Africa would face. I knew of the slave trade of Africans to America but I didn’t know much more than the general knowledge that a lot of Africans were forced into it. I also didn’t realized that one of the reasons that they took Africans was because they were unwilling to bring their own European slaves. The fact that there were on to fifteen million slave brought to American truly blow my mind. And it was sad to think that it became normal and necessary to treat black people as less than human. It shocked me that not even the clergy stood up against the trade because of its monetary wealth that it brought.
Their role in the colonization of the continent was much more key than I would have imagined. On one hand they preached about inequality and still treated them the same as not equal. But on the other hand they did bring education to Africa which had a huge benefit. The missionary effort was to destroy culture, produce contradiction and colonialism, and make it possible to organize on a national level. However, nine out of ten educated Africans were educated at a missionary school. So although some of their intentions were not the best, in the end Christianity was good for