Colonialism In Africa

Colonialism availed English to the masses that were colonized. In the colonization period, most of the persons affected were in Asia as well as in Africa. This was in the 19th century where the European countries divided various countries among themselves to colonize and rule over for economic reasons. Though this was the latest spate of colonization, earlier developments and spread of English form the main English speakers such as England, Ireland and Scotland, formerly, the English language was introduce to various countries such as the United States of America. New Zealand, the South African republic and Australia when there was mass migration of populations due to the shortness of resources in the motherland English speaking countries.

The patterns were based on social political issues as well as the different geographical locations which were colonized. The various patterns of colonization include: the divide and rule strategies, the collaboration strategies. All these strategies were used by the colonizers in their interests to expand their political and economic prospects. The divide and rule strategy was used in places where the people in those countries were united and had a good political organization and there was a possibility that they would gang up against their colonizers demanding for their freedom. In other cases, the colonizers had various means of accomplishing their goals. First, they employed collaborative means through the use of treaties and agreements were usually signed between them and their subjects. The reason for this was so that they would be able to control their subjects easily. The different geographical locations were also influencing the manner of colonization that was conducted by the colonizers. For example, in places such as Asia, the colonization pattern was entirely different from the patterns that were adopted in Africa. This was as a result of the endowments of the places being colonized. The African lads were well endowed with natural resources and the colonialists had to get people working in their lands (Matthews, 2000). In the Asian countries, it was different since the people there were educated and understood treaties; this meant that the patterns were somehow better than the patterns which were employed in African countries. There were, as mentioned afore, various social political issues which influenced the patterns of colonialism. In places where the people inhabiting were not educated, they had first to be made cognizant of the basic skills in education before they would collaborate with the colonialists. Besides this, differences in the demographics also affected the patterns of