Voltaire's 'The Dark Continent'

“The Dark Continent”
Voltaire once said, “To learn who rules over you simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” Europeans “gold diggers” had a big interest in African resources and were willing to get them at any cost. Africans were mistreated and abused with no pity by the colonizers. European leaders felt the urge to make Africans seem defenseless and not equally as important as the Europeans. African colonies had a man betrayed their religion and they did not want to bury the man because it was forbidden. Colonialism has negatively impacted African cultures by altering African culture forever.
Europeans “gold diggers” had a big interest in African resources and were willing to get them at any cost. They had even made plans
African religion was so important to these men that they couldn’t even burry an African because he supposedly committed suicide. They had to have complete strangers burry the African man because it was against their religion to bury a man that way. According to the text from “The Pacification of the Primitive Tribes of the Lower Niger” talks about how the man had died and the African people did not want to bury him because it was against their religion and they were unwilling to bury him unless it was a complete stranger. According to the quote “ The commissioner went away, taking three or four of the soldiers with him. In the many years in which he had toiled to bring civilization to different parts of Africa he had learned a number of things. One of them was that a District Commissioner must never attend to such undignified details as cutting a hanged man from the tree. Such attention would give the natives a poor opinion of him.” The quote talks about how the man cares about the reputation that he will have with the natives. He doesnt want to be seen as this monster in front of them. Being forbidden by your religion to do something that would seem easy and proper in the situation, and have to be done by a complete stranger. Things like these are what Africans had to do because of their