Africans Imperialism

The Europeans colonized colonized many parts of the world but the most colonized was the continent Africa. The European explorers started imperializing Africa after exploring into the interior of Africa and finding the resources that African countries had. What is imperialism? Imperialism is the policy of taking control of another country. There were three main reasons for European imperialism in Africa: Political reasons, technology, and economic reasons.

The Kingdom of Ghana was a rich and mysterious country. The Ancient country lay where Maturia, Mali, and Senegal are to day. The kingdom existed from 700-1200 A.D. but people had been living in the area since the Fourth century A.D. Ghana's Golden age was from the Ninth to the Eleventh century A.D. During this time gold was abundant along with salt and other valuable goods. These items made Ghana a rich nation where the primary income was made from trading with the Arabs and other African nations. Even though trading was the main source of income, most of the common people were farmers. These farmers grew crops like corn, wheat, and rice. All of these reasons make the Ancient Kingdom of Ghana a desireable place to move to.

There is no other way to look at what the African People had for advancements in technology had that kingdom tribes. Europeans arrived in the 15th-16th century, but before that the African people had so many achievements under their belt.These cities became emperors in the 300s. Each empire had their hand in the control of the salt and gold trade. The cities got power from trade and became centers of living. Throughout the 300s cities turned into empires and also fell.The three most known empires in the west are Ghana, Mali, Songhai. Ghana rose to control the power of the trans-saharan gold and salt trade between 700-1067. The Empire of Mali rose around 1235. Within this empire was the city of Timbuktu. Finally the Songhai empire lasted from

In the middle of Africa, in the northeast corner of the Belgian Congo, is the Ituri forest: home of the pygmies. The pygmies, known by themselves as the BaMbuti, are an ancient indigenous people whose presence has been felt all the way back into ancient Egyptian times. They are a group of hunter gatherers who live off the Ituri rain forest and have evolved to be swift but silent runners who at most reach heights of four and a half feet tall (14). Up until the nineteenth century not much was known about the BaMbuti peoples. Most regarded them as myth or, if they did accept that they existed, unhuman creatures roaming the forests (16). The pygmy people share their home in the Congo with many Negro tribes. The Negro tribes claim ownership of certain

The Maasai ethnic group migrated from the Nile valley in Ethiopia and Sudan to Maasailand in the central, south-western Kenya and northern Tanzania sometime around 1600 AD, along the route of lakes Chew Bahir and Turkana bringing all their domesticated cattle with them.

The people of medieval Mali had a unique culture. When talking about the culture of the Mali people, we should definitely address their families, early beliefs, traditions, oral history, and art forms. As for families, a typical West African family was an extended family consisting of a father, mother, children, and close relatives. But, in some areas people took part in another type of group called age sets. People, in both families and age sets, had the duty to help and be loyal to one another. Early West African beliefs consisted of traditional beliefs that showed the importance of families, and animism that reflected the people’s dependence on the natural world for survival. One example of a traditional belief is that if

The race for expansion was the particular driving force for the scramble of South East Asia and Africa. The motivation or theme when imperializing a country would be for its size, quantity raw/natural materials, and the native people basically Social Darwinism. These two countries both contained the abundance and natural materials needed by the colonizers. The view on how the same country affected each country was completely two different outcomes and results.

In the 1400s the Portuguese came to establish trade and set up a fishing port. They saw the value that Mauritania held long before the British, French, and Dutch who didn't come to the region until the 1700s and 1800s. These countries came for a different reason altogether though. A large supply of gum arabic was found along the Senegal river. Gum arabic is a natural gum consisting of the hardened sap of various species of the acacia tree. This sap was very precious to the Europeans because it contributed to their growing art culture. It could be used in water color paint and a binder for ceramic

The people of Neolithic has occupied Libya state for more than ten thousand years ago. There are many different indigenous tribes have to be known collectively as Berbers, the word Berber it comes from the Roman Word Barbarians. Form the early civilization ascended Libyan historical geographic divisions; Cyrenaica, Tripolitania, and Fezzan. The Mediterranean coast has become a crossroads to the Libya state for the sequence of the ancient empires, Phoenicians, Greeks, Romans, Vandals, and Byzantines, who connected through motorcade routes to the inner desert empire of the Garamantes, and other Berber tribes. In the eleventh century, an immense invasion of Arab nomads, Bedouins, have covered the Arab cultural and the practice of Islam throughout

Morocco is a white man 's country once and a half the size of France four and a half times

So instead, they sent missionaries and merchants to the main West African state, Ghana. Islam was not terrifically popular in Ghana, but nonetheless, it was able to establish a foothold, which represented an important step for Islam. Eventually, Islam struck gold when the leader of a later empire, Mansa Musa, converted. When Musa, leader of the Mali Empire, became the first devoutly Islamic West African leader, Islam in West Africa was able to truly make its mark. Under the Mali Empire, trans-Saharan trade was at its peak. This benefitted not only Muslims (who controlled both sides of the route), but the states of West Africa, which exploded with riches. With the help of Islam’s sophistication, West Africa (Mali in particular) was opened up the rest of the world. What used to be a very isolated region became one of the centers of the Islamic world, and a vital trading post.

Mali, like Ghana, had dominated most of West Africa from the 13th Century to 15th Century C.E.. Though Mali as a state did collapse in the 15th Century. This was because of the dysfunctional political practices as a result of the death of Mansa Musa, which had led to family rivalry for power. Mansas – the rulers, constantly fighting for power had led to civil war and their power had decreased while military power increased. Because of this dysfunctional government, trade no longer was safe and no longer became Mali’s source of income though trade was Mali’s main source of prosperity. Also, Mali had been centered fundamentally on Islamic faith but Islam wasn’t the faith of most people creating a diversity of religions in Mali. Soon, invasions

In the early 7th century Northern Africa was conquered by Muslims. The indigenous people of Northern Africa were known as the “Berbers”.

The Bantu migration is the dispersal of the Bantu people from the region of Cameroon and the Congo area. The word “Bantu” does not refer to the people of the African expansion, but rather the African languages belonging to the people in the Niger Congo. Cultural influences that occurred, due to the migration of the Bantu people, laid out the foundation for other Sub-Saharan societies. Historians have used the collective information found by archeologists and other historians in order to draw conclusions about the Bantu Migration. Linguistics, agriculture, and different types of art have been the evidence needed to identify the culture and the specific patterns of movement, during this period.

First, mapping ethnicities onto modern countries in Africa has been called “ethnogenesis” (Austin 2008). The inconsistency of ethnic labels coupled with the prevalence of migration, “makes it very difficult to be confident about assigning 18th century ethnonyms to 20th century- territories” (Austin 2008:1001). Second, migration in pre-colonial Africa was