The Aftermath Of Colonial Rule On Sub Saharan Africans

Despite the confusion that colonialism brought, it introduced the people of Kenya to many new possibilities. Kenya was rapidly evolving. “Despite its many abuses, colonialism eliminated slavery, human sacrifice, and internecine warfare while providing opportunities for Africans with modern skills to rise socially and economically regardless of

“African Perspectives on Colonialism” is a book written by A. Adu Boahen. This book classifies the African responses to European colonialism in the 19th century. Boahen begins with the status of Africa in the last quarter of the 19th century and follows through the first years of African independence. This book deals with a twenty year time period between 1880 and 1900. Boahen talks about when Africa was seized and occupied by the Imperial Powers of Europe. Eurocentric points of view dominated the study of this era but Boahen gives us the African perspective. There are always two sides of the story and Boehen tells us the side less talked about informing us of what he knows.

Africa’s persistent poverty interrogates the continent’s past through institutions, government, demography, economics, colonialism, and the impact of the trading. The colonial era affected the variety of Africa’s historical development for it was quite the game changer since it put a halt to the continuous drain of scarce labor and paved the way for the expansion of land concentrated forms of agriculture, and engaging smallholders, estates, and communal farms. The establishment of the colonial rule over the African interior reinforced African commodity growth in export. The colonial control facilitated the construction induced significant inflows of European

The introduction of colonialism had vast implications on the world and greatly altered the histories of millions of people. The practice of colonialism denotes the process that people from one place establish a settlement in another land in a way which has repercussions on people who initially inhabited the land, (Derry, 2011, p. 358). Throughout the globe, though mostly in the Americas, Africa and the Pacific Islands, (Morgan, 2017), Indigenous lands were colonized, effecting the countless Indigenous populations. While contact was not obligated to be negative, contact between Indigenous populations and colonizers had an immensely negative impact on Indigenous peoples living in colonizΩzed land. New diseases introduced by colonizers wiped out the vast majority of the Indigenous population. Additionally, the peaceful contact which Indigenous populations initiated was usually not held up by colonizers. Unfortunately, this resulted in the various forms of oppression for Indigenous groups at the hands of the colonizers. Throughout colonial times, millions of Indigenous lives were lost while colonizers continued to reap the material benefits of colonization. These results of colonization were consistent globally, though each region and Indigenous group experienced colonization differently. For example, in Argentina, interactions between colonizers and Indigenous groups were initially peaceful. However, eventually, the Argentine government, along with missionaries, decided to

For instance, many scholars have done comparative analysis between the effects of colonialism in Africa to that experienced in North America, Asia, or South America (Mahoney, 2010, p. 2). However, the specific topic of regional disparities within a particular geographic area is largely lacking in substance. Therefore, Mahoney aims to improve our knowledge about the unique consequences that colonialism can have on postcolonial development in countries that were colonized by the same

In this book, James Ferguson explores how Africa fares in the neoliberal world. He considers the whole continent but focuses on selected examples that shed light on how the current world order has impacted the continent and its people. Through eight essays, he explores paradoxes of African states and governments; the continent 's place in the new world order, modernity and development; and the “modernization” of mineral and oil extraction models. This set of disjointed essays examine the realities that continue to determine development and growth on the African continent.

The creation of The World Bank was an attempt to remedy the wealth disparities facing African nations, and open new markets for international trade. Africa’s economic stagnation calls for a shift in paradigm, leaning towards sustained economic growth. It is only through the sustained growth of these economies that the World Bank can claim success. This essay will assess the meaning of failed development, effects of trade liberalization and the impact that multi-national corporations have had on African countries. Imposing neo-liberalism on African nations has led to a lack of sustainable development due to its ability to proliferate complex interdependency and exploitation.

Africa is a continent rich in culture, resources, and potential. But when compared to the rest of the world, Africa stands as the poorest continent despite having some of the world’s richest natural resources. Africa has some of the poorest life expectancy, highest HIV/AIDS rates, malnutrition and infant mortality rates in the world (African Development Bank Group, "Income Inequality in Africa", 2012, p. 2). It leaves one to question the reason for such disparity within the continent. The following will provide an in-depth analysis into one of the many reasons for such inequalities and poverty. I will argue that tribalism imbedded in African culture has had a significant role in the lack of economic development and income inequalities.

Most african countries, especially those sub of the Sahara, gained independence in the late fifties through the nineties. It may be expected that, the countries (at least a majority) on the second largest continent of the world may have made some significant progress in infrastructure, economy, and other aspects of the country and improve the livelihoods of citizens; just like their coequals in other parts of the world. Yet, sub-saharan Africa is home to the majority of the world’s poor ( Moyo, 2009).

In recent years, attention has been drawn to the extreme poverty that exist in many African nations. Globalization has only exuburated the gap betweern the Western world and developing countries; nations such as the US, and Britian continue to grow, while progress in these the third world are virtually stagnate. The unstable political and economic systems that led to the extreme poverty these African nations face are a result of Africa’s long and corrupt history, starting with colonization of Africa by the west. The colonization of Africa led to the formation of independent African states. This division led to corrupt governments, exploitation of natural resources, and a lack of economic development.

Throughout the year, we have learned about how colonization left many African countries crumbled to pieces. Postcolonialism sparked a conversation about the effects and consequences of external control and exploitation of indigenous people and their property as well as their wealth. From these conversations arose many different theories that gave colonization a reason of existence. One of those theories was the dependency theory. There are two points to the dependency theory, the first one being resources flow from a poor and underdeveloped states to wealthy states. It is a central argument of dependency theory that poor states are impoverished and rich ones enriched by the way poor states are integrated into the "world system." The second point of the theory is that formerly colonized countries will forever be subject to their former colonizers instead of taking the initiative and cultivated their own country. In the film, Bamako directed by Abderrahmane Sissako and the novel A Leap Out of Dark by Gorgui Dieng both works challenged both aspects of the theories. In both works, we got a first look at how the dependency theory affects individuals living in these countries. Although we see a blame of outsiders, we as readers how there was also a blame on internal.

From Dar salaam to Dakar, Johannesburg to Monrovia the African continent, like no other continent has had most foreign influence. It has altered peoples taste and want; others view of pleasure and some others understanding of a good life. Nelson Mandela in his famous biography said the white man’s coming to Africa changed even the smallest of our ways to the larges – ECONOMY. In this literature I would be looking at the role of colonial slavery to modern governance towards economic development. How from the 15 century to date, Ghana has been influence by colonial force into it post colonial days to current times.

Colonization is when a country moves from its shores to set up settlements in areas already inhabited by a certain group of people and where resistance is of least concern in terms of war. This paper will first discus the colonization of Africa as well as how and why the Europeans came to Africa. It will then look at common problems that occurred due to the colonization and will specifically look into the colonization of Kenya under British rule and its outcomes that made the country worse. Even though colonization in some cases had positive impacts, such as the creation of infrastructure, it was more of a negative impact on African countries, such as Kenya, because of loss of sovereignty and culture, exploitation of resources and rights. It is also important to consider that despite the positive impacts such as better infrastructure, it was meant to benefit the European powers as opposed to helping the native peoples in the regions.

This essay analyses the effect of colonialism in Kenya. It explains the depth of colonialism within Kenya’s context and analyses the impact of colonial conquest, the imposition of international and local administrative boundaries. It also examined further the lasting consequences of colonial economic and social policies concerning colonialism in Kenya. This essay gives more explanation that has to do with British colonialism in Kenya.

It is argued that a country’s development is reinforced by ‘democratic good governance '. ‘Democratic good governance’ refers generally to a political regime based on the model of a liberal-democratic polity, which protects human and civil rights, combined with a competent, non-corrupt and accountable public administration (Dauda and Oladoyin, 2008). I will first look at their different colonial experiences and the governments that took over after these countries became independent. With this I will discuss how different political regimes can influence ‘development’. Secondly, I will look at each country’s economic and social development and argue how the different management of natural resources can have different economic impacts. Thirdly, I will reflect on how Nigeria’s large ethnic groups have affected democratization and economic development in a way that other ethnic groups became to dominate others. With this, I will dispute that Nigeria’s economic and social development has been affected by corruption and lack of accountability. I therefore argue that South Africa is more successful in terms of the level of development and democratization as compared to other Sub- Saharan African countries, especially Nigeria. This is partly due to its long years of colonialism and its post-colonial transition into democracy. Kesselman etal (2013) argues that South Africa’s political