¶ … positive and negative impacts Western colonialism peoples Africa. Give specific examples.
Imperialism in Africa
European colonization of Africa was one of the most important events in world history, providing Europeans with the raw materials and labor resources to conquer and control much of the rest of the world. Moreover, centuries of European colonial domination left an indelible imprint on Africa's societies, economies, and cultures that is still visible nearly half a century after the end of decolonization. Though imperialism clearly benefited Africa and some Africans, on balance, it is clear that imperialism was negative for Africa and Africans.
Europeans had colonized Africa as far back as the Greeks' establishment of a mercantile colony at Naucratis in the sixth-century B.C.E. Typically, however, when scholars discuss colonization of the African continent, they are referring to the period from the sixteenth-century C.E. through the mid-twentieth century, when European powers vied with one another to exploit Africa's vast labor and mineral resources. The most important period of colonial activity, from the perspective of this paper, was the late-nineteenth century, a segment of the era in world history known as the "new imperialism," a period from France's conquest of Algeria in 1830 to the outbreak of World War I in 1914 and characterized by competition between European countries to control as much African territory as possible. By the end of the nineteenth-century, the Europeans' mad dash for...
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