European Imperialism In The 19th Century

During The 1870’s and 1900s, Africa faced the threat of foreign imperialists who wanted to colonize African land to further their own countries power. But the threat of imperialism started way before European colonists came into Africa. Missionaries in the 19th century had a main objective of bringing Christianity to the people of Africa. They tried to change the way Africans behaved because European Missionaries saw Africans as being savages and uncivilized and they saw it as their duty to change that. I will be discussing how missionaries were the forerunners of western imperialism in the 19th century.
When the world was entering the 20th there was great need for more control and more power by numerous different power countries. Missionaries