The Role Of European Imperialism In Africa

Everyone has heard of slaves, gold, and an elephant’s ivory. Gold is still an expensive item, ivory is illegal, and slaves are now illegal to have and shamed upon in most areas of the world. It was not always like that back then. So what drove the European Imperialism in Africa? Imperialism can be defined as a state’s power, both economically and physically. This is good for the European countries, but awful for Africa because they have no control on what they can and cannot do. The sources discussed will be the Partition of Africa 1884-1885, a small piece from John Ruskin and Freidrich Fabri, and Technology and Imperialism. The Europeans wanted more land, so they took over Africa and gained control of it. They split the country into fifty