2. What does it all mean?
Colonialism - the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political
control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting
it economically.
Imperialism - A policy of extending a country's power and influence
through diplomacy or military force.
Colonialism can be thought to be a practice and imperialism as the idea
driving the practice.
Metropolis - In the past, metropolis was the designation for a city or
state of origin of a colony
6. Scramble for Africa
Why was Europe interested in Africa in the first place?
gather scientific knowledge about the unknown.
Europeans felt that there was a definite need to promote and convert
Africans to Christianity.
imperialism. a strong desire by European patriots to contribute to
their country’s grandeur by laying claim to other countries in distant
lands.
economic, social, and political reasons
7. Economical issues
Europeans believed that Africa was rich in natural resources, and one
of reasons for colonialism was the desire to gain control of Africa's rich
natural resources.
Need for markets
European colonial powers did not want to spend their own money to
establish and maintain their colonies in Africa. Rather, they insisted
that each colony (if at all possible) supply the revenues necessary to
govern the colony.
Commerce, Christianity, Civilization
8. Political - Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy,
Portugal, and Spain were competing for power within
European power politics. One way to demonstrate national
preeminence was through the acquisition of territories
around the world, including Africa.
9. Demographics
Demographic impact of colonialism encourages us to examine migration
patterns
Metropolis to the colonies
colonies to the metropolis
migration between different colonies within the empire
10. Hygiene - Formal education and modern medicine were brought to
people who had limited understanding or control of their physical
environment.
Infrastructure - Apart from their shortage of skills and infrastructure,
Africans lacked an appreciation of the total and complex nature of the
transformation from simple agrarian society to modern technological
civilization
to meet their economic and administrative needs colonial powers built
some infrastructure, like railway to carry export commodities, and
they educated a few Africans to help them run the colonies.
11. Education - In most of colonial Africa, schools were staffed and run by
missionaries but subsidized in varying degrees by colonial governments,
whose interest in missionary education was simply to ensure that
enough Africans were educated to meet the limited need for semiskilled
workers in colonial bureaucracies.
Their primary concern was the conversion of people to Christianity
Consequently, with limited government support, most African
children did not go to school during the colonial era.
12. Religion - The missionaries had total control over the religious
curriculum. Mission schools taught that the European presence in
Africa was to benefit the African people and to uplift them from a state
of barbarism.
the little education that they got opened their minds and provided
them with practical and intellectual skills they never had before
Despite this, colonial education very often alienated young people
from their own culture and undermined traditional authority.
Gradually, African people began to acquiesce to colonial rule and to
surrender the elements of their culture and traditions
Economic
