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Impact Of Colonialism On African Statecraft

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NAMES: RAMULIFHO M
STUDENT NO: 27884430
LECTURE: KGAME MOLOPE
MODULE: POLI 223
CONTENTS
ABSTRACT 1
INTRODUCTION 1
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 2
REASONS FOR THE COLONIZATION OF AFRICA BY THE EUROPEANS TO ACHIEVE THE COLONIAL OBJECTIVES. 3
IMPACT OF COLONIALISM ON THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, POLITICS EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY, AND RELIGION OF AFRICA 4
AFRICAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND POLITICS 4
EDUCATION 4
RELIGION 5
CONCLUSION 5

ABSTRACT

This assignment is mainly focused on the analysis on the impact of colonialism in the African statecraft in various aspects such as educational activity, economic development, political landscape, religion and others. It will take a gander at the target why African statecraft were colonized and which nations were …show more content…

(World web Online Dictionary.The primary expectation of colonization was to have control politically, besides its goal was to misuse the colonized countries. Colonialism in Africa is wonder or process which has begun between 2800-1960s. It is a phenomenon which played the very similar role with the so called “imperialism”. However one can argue that “imperialism” is an immediate type of colonialism. Colonialism started as aftereffect of change in the method of creation in the European mainland. As the compatibility for the venture of the accumulated capital and the requirement for crude materials and others regular assets which could improve European colonialists at last prompted the colonization of …show more content…

Remarkable, among the components was the rise of the modern upheaval which achieved a fast change in the financial change and innovation of the European nations. The modern unrest prompted increment underway. The advance in the business went quicker than the advance in farming. It was winding up progressively hard or troublesome for the horticulture to fulfil the interest for crude materials required in the enterprises. There was in this manner, the requirement for the European forces, for instance, the British to go outside the nation to search for extra crude materials (Ocheni S and

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