Colonization Of Africa

When a country feels superior to another and decides to take it over, that is called imperialism. Imperialism was occurring through a major part of the late 1800s and early 1900s, mainly taking a toll on Africa. During imperialism a country is able to gain government, trade, or the culture that has been adopted. The concept and action of imperialising can destroy many people's values and the their way of life for them personally. Imperialism was a selfish and negative concept towards certain cultural groups during the time of its reign.

In the 19th century, Europe’s materials were beginning to run low. They first noticed the the opportunities for free labor in the form of slaves (until the slave trade was abolished in 1807), and then the huge number of resources that Africa had. After those discoveries, Europeans wanted to try and colonize, or takeover Africa. For a long time, Europeans were kept out of Africa due to their strong armies, unknown rivers, and different diseases. However, at a certain point Europeans were able to finally break down the barriers when they had taken enough able-bodied men from Africa, invented new technologies such as a steamboat, and found cures to different diseases that had heavily hurt Europeans in the past.

Around the year 1897 Edward Morel noticed something that would change the way the modern world viewed the colonization of Africa and the supposed “humanitarian” work there forever (Hochschild 1). Morel worked for an English shipping company that was responsible for cargo going between the Congo Free State and Belgium. What Morel noticed was that ships from Africa were filled with rich, exotic goods like rubber and ivory, but the ships headed to Africa from Belgium were filled with military members and various firearms and ammunition (Hochschild 2). Morel made the conclusion that the cause of this odd “trade” between Europe and Africa was slave labor. European colonization of Africa was a slow, arduous process resulting in the deaths of

When a central power comes in and dominates the surrounding land and people it is referred to as colonization. In some cases it can lead to a positive outcome but more so than not it has a negative repercussion. In “Heart of Darkness,” “The Powwow at the End of the World,” and “Heritage,” both the colonizer and the colonized experience negative consequences that force them to change their views on the world.

Colonization, essentially, the act of coming in and taking over an area. Many things can cause a country to colonize another. Such as the discovery of a new country or making a new trade route. Establishing a colony in another country can make a country more powerful. While colonization may help the country that is coming in, it can hurt the natives. The colonists could bring new diseases that the natives are unable to defend against. Unintentionally, of course. Since the colonists usually used brute force to conquer a land to colonize, it would create conflict with the natives. Colonization also led to deforestation and the overgrazing of lands. It also caused problems with the motherland. Being separated from the motherland for so long gave

Colonialism was motivated by monarchs who desired to settle on new land. The Age of Discovery had pushed countries to build trading posts or conquer land, but this was simply for trade. Once explorers discovered new lands that seemed vastly uninhabited, mother countries changed their strategies.

Colonialism is also a specific form of imperialism. Imperialism, in which other lands were taken over unfairly, was practiced in Europe starting in the sixteenth century. Lands were overtaken in Africa, and both the Americas and Africa where it was believed the indigenous people were felt to be primitive societies, with uneducated and uncivilized people. The Europeans did not understand these cultures, including their religious beliefs or social customs and they, believed that they needed to change their community to become more like the far superior European culture. The

Colonization is the process of going into a new land and establishing a colony that will inhabit settlers and acquire either minimal or maximum political control.1 The goal was often times the latter. Colonialism is domination of another society and is often done by establishing political, social and economic

The discovery of America by Christopher Columbus in 1492 and the subsequent conquest of this continent by Spaniards and Portuguese reverberated from the 16th Century on another region of the planet, somewhat removed from the events of conquest: Africa.

Colonization is the process of forming colonies where emigrants from a country live in a distant land and subject to their parent country.

Colonialism did many things, from changing the land, to at times destroying it. It varied depending which country was being colonized. When colonization began within the occupying new territory the settlers would come in and change the course of that country. The land was being changed all already those natives who were the ones being colonized. The people were forced to change and emerge into the way of living and handling matters. Their cultures were being destroyed and traditions were being changed. The colonizers had all the power in their hands of what will become of that new land. Whether they will better it or take absolute advantage of its natural resources was all in their hands. The course for that country was left on the hands of the

(1) “In general, scholars agree that colonialism involves the organized domination by one nation of an external or different geographical unit, nation, culture, race, or people. According to V. Y. Mudimbe in The Invention of Africa(1988), the terms " 'colonialism ' and 'colonization ' basically mean organization, arrangement,’ and ‘derive from the Latin 'colere, ' meaning to cultivate or to design.’” (Colonialism)

If prompted with the question what is colonization and or how did Europe and America colonize different countries and peoples the answer might be as simple as: it was the process of taking land from other countries and pushing to change the peoples of those countries towards western ways. This answer is to simple, a lot of people do not know the motives behind colonizing another country. Even though the motives behind colonizing another country depend on the time and location of the colonizing, Europe and America have always set above every other country around the world. They title themselves as being superior to all others. Thus, a lot of countries bought into the western ways and believe Westerners to be “demigod”. In Michael Adas essay, Contested Hegemony: The Great War and the Afro-Asian Assault on the Civilizing-Mission, even though the focus is on the ups and downs of colonization in Asia and Africa. The essay looks at the motives behind colonizing these peoples, why some bought into the idea and how World War One changed everything for Europe, Asia and Africa in terms of colonization.

Colonization is when a power exploits another “lesser” power and uses its resources to strengthen and enrich the greater power. Starting in the 1500s, several European empires began to compete for power and profit in North America. The three main powers involved in this competition were Spain, France, and Great Britain, and they all took very different approaches. Spain was more commanding and brutal at first, forcing natives to convert to Christianity in an effort to “civilize” them. This was a common justification for colonization, claiming that it was a “civilizing mission,” or an attempt to civilize the “inferior” natives. The idea of natives as inferior was based on their construction of

Throughout history there are many accounts of civilizations being taken over or colonized. Colonialism is defined by Dictionary.com as, “the control or governing influence of a nation over a dependent country, territory, or people.” Another source says that colonialism is the maintenance and establishment of rule over an outside group of people seperate from the original ruling people. Basically, when one government takes over and sets up their own ruling government in an area previously inhabited by another group, colonies are formed. There have been many historical instances where a culture’s identity has been stripped by another group of people. There are also instances where a culture as benefited from colonization.