Imperialism In Africa

How has the scramble for Africa affected Africans? Europeans have always been known to take over many territories. For example, the British have expanded their empire to Australia, Asia, and even the Americas. Although these changes have made what the world is today, nothing has changed more than Africa. Before Colonialism occurred, Africa traded with other parts of the world for centuries (RP #1). In the nineteenth century, the Europeans started to notice that Africa could be a “gold mine” for their own economy. As more Europeans started to invade Africa, much of Imperialism took place. The two main reasons for Imperialism and Colonialism in Africa were for trade and territorial control. Trade is what Africa has historically been known for. For many years leading up to Colonialism and Imperialism in Africa, Africans typically traded with people all around the world. This may have been why Europeans wanted Africans’ trade. According to Reading Piece One, Europeans, “…built relationships with Africans there and developed trade ties…” (RP #1). Europeans tried to make it seem to Africans that all Europeans wanted was trade, but the truth was that the Europeans wanted to take over that territory. Also, Europeans knew that the coasts of Africa were international trade ports. According to Document B, the picture,
Trade and territorial control were what Europeans wanted from Africa and Africans, and is what Europeans got. The African race would not be the same today if Europeans did not take control of Africans land and trade. Also, the whole rest of the world would not be the same if Europeans did not have Colonialism and Imperialism in Africa because the dispersion of Africans around the world would not have happened. In theory, to sum up, the world as people knows it today would not be the same if Colonialism and Imperialism did not take place in