How Did The New Imperialism Affect The Economic Changes In Africa

Niumi was specifically colonized to export and trade its raw materials, such as copper, cotton, rubber, palm oil, cocoa, diamonds, tea, and tin. The increase in trade also brought about an industrial revolution. Because of the Industrial Revolution, it increased the areas' capital and brought developments to the area to accommodate the rise in population. However, with the greater need to mine and harvest more raw materials also came the greater need to have workers, leading to the natives of the area being exploited as cheap laborers Hence, the New Imperialism age affected economic changes in Niumi, as well as other parts of Africa by creating more wealth, but it also created an unequal distribution of that wealth. African citizens began to
suffer because the British Empire used African citizens for their cheap labor and their resources while the British citizens obtained the wealth.