Reasons For European Colonization Of Africa

Imagine African people at war. Killing each other everyday because they are enemies forced to live together. That is what the European colonization caused. The Europeans decided that they wanted to colonize Africa because they saw profit in it. They did not even care about the natives. Colonization is when a country decides to populate an area of foreign land and have a government there without actually owning it.

The Europeans colonized Africa for many reasons. They colonized Africa because they wanted the resources that were in the land such as salt and any other raw materials that they could mine out of the ground. Europe also colonized because they wanted new trade routes and more things to trade. They traded all sorts of things that