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Scramble To Destroy Africa

The “Scramble For Africa” refers to the way the European colonizers fought over Africa like the last piece of cake at a party. Big countries such as Great Britain, France, England, etc. all found themselves using their points of advantage against the weaker country Africa. The European colonizers had already established a government system to follow and were armed with weapons that would allow them to easily possess control over a country where those aspects are not present.
I was extremely upset when learning about these colonization because of how brutal they were to the native people living there. The northern invaders took land, resources, and freedom away from the African natives. One would think that being colonized would allow for Africa to grow as a country both economically and politically, but that was far from the case. Instead, Africa was left even more poor than it was before while the colonizers grew more wealthy. The European countries took the nature resources that they found in their new claimed lands and sold them to benefit their own countries and leave Africa reaping no benefits.

The invasion was not only evil in terms of money though, for they had oppressed the natives immensely during their stay. The moved all the tribes into one area and set up cities as they pleased. They left children and elderly individuals far on the countryside while the young health men and women were sent to work for the white folks in the city. Men were kept in shed where they slept shoulder-to-shoulder with other men every night, and women slept in the house of a white family as they worked as a maid and nanny.  The separation of the African families allowed the Europeans to keep the Africans obedient, as they hoped for a holiday to spend with their families. This is a prime example of what our current president calls a “sh*th*l*” country. A country that has been taken advantage of and left with nothing, yet he praises the oppressors for the harm they do in the process.

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