Essay On African American Imperialism

I was arguing with my British friends one day about the British Empire and how it impacted the world we live in. They argued it was for the good thing but it also had negative effects. I argued against this. Colonization or as I call it ’legal theft’ was a catastrophe. People deserve to rule themselves. But why was it able to happen? Colonized Africans were exploited and the significant changes that their colonial powers brought were thought to solely positively but many of these negative changes are still effecting Africa today.

Lack of unity is something the colony powers created in Africa. The colonial powers divided the continents into countries in the Berlin Conference, of whom don’t share a common language. This mentality was “put them all them together they are savages.” A lack of unity is the root of a lot of civil unrest in African nation, is mainly due to this ignorant ideology. Tribalism between different ethnic groups are retained in many African nations.

The Western countries use of African in combat especially the world wars and tore families apart. Many may argue it also tore western families apart too but no in same way. African were sanctioned into entering war while European families were pressured into entering wars. A major difference in
My grandma opinion of education is evident in many place in Africa is accepted as the norm. This mentality of Africa seeing education as privilege bestow on Europeans has held us back for years. I believe this why the West has exploited due to the mentality we have given ourselves that we are inferior to the European is untrue and highly inaccurate. “Education is not a way to escape poverty, it is a way of fighting it”- Julius Nyerere once said. This not financial poverty but poverty of the knowledge and