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Pre-colonialism and Civilization Effects (African)
Africa; is considered as globally the second largest and second most populated region after Asia. It’s a region known for its high temperatures and hence termed as the hottest continent and most dry region after Australia. in addition to that, it’s a mineral-rich continent.
It’s said during pre-colonialism that it predicted that it had more than 10000 varied nations and self-governing groupings (Lindberg, Griffiths, and Anderson. 170). They all had very different languages of communication to one another and their duties. They engaged in different activities economically, but it’s recorded that the earliest humans were hunters and gatherers who kept in small family clusters. They practiced barter trading as the main form of exchanging goods but was then carried out over long distances. They also did practice farming, and the crops were also part of the trade.
The coming of the Europeans to African has been recorded to have had overwhelming effects. There was a widespread rearrangement of the economy; it distorted the economy in terms of products, selling points, traders, social amenities, and urbanization (King, Rachel. 608). They brought new technology that was greatly applied in farming tools and introduced new crops such as corn and manioc resistant to crop defects. Brought advanced medicine from Europeans that boosted the population growth of the Africans. Introduction of a formal education system that would later see them acquire white-collar jobs. The African nations’ improved infrastructure with the introduction of road connections, rail, and water production of power and communication modes were more advanced and less cumbersome.
However, several Africans were taken into slavery working with no remuneration, seized resources such as land from Africans, and introduced cash crop farming for themselves. African culture got diluted, traditional religions were scrapped away, and Africans were forced to learn their language.
Several Africans showed the will to reject European dominance, and as such, several resistance came up (Price, Douglas. et al. Pp. 43). Maji-Maji uprising in Tanzania though not successful, Battle of Adowa in Ethiopia, the Italian army were defeated and Chimurenga resistance in Zimbabwe, who successfully sent away British settlers.
In conclusion, do you think that the Europeans needed to go to Africa? Will it be in order if Africans too were allowed to colonize Europeans as a way of payback?
Work Cited
Lindberg, C., C. L. Griffiths, and R. J. Anderson. “Colonisation of South African kelp-bed canopies by the alien mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis: extent and implications of a novel bioinvasion.” African Journal of Marine Science 42.2 (2020): 167-176.
King, Rachel. “Cattle, raiding, and disorder in Southern African history.” Africa 87.3 (2017): 607-630.
Price, T. Douglas, et al. “Home Is the Sailor: Investigating the Origins of the Inhabitants of La Isabela, the First European Settlement in the New World.” Current Anthropology 61.5 (2020): 000-000.