Wednesday, November 2, 2011

"If we looked at the continent of Africa, it is the scholar responsibility to analyze the effect that European Colonialism had on the political, economic, and social systems in Africa (Reference: Frantz Fanon, "The Wretched of the Earth"). Moreover, in particular, the Berlin Conference held in 1884 and 1885, in which the Europeans partitioned Africa and ulimately destroyed the cultural unity of people by dividing kinfolk who shared ethnicity, nationality,language, culture, religion, trade, mores, folkways, customs, etc. However, King Leopold carved Africa in to tiny nation states, robbing Africa of past and future economic and political stability due to these unnatural divisions ( Reference: Cheik Anta Diop, "Black Africa: The Economic and Culture Basis for a FederatedState") and also (Reference: Walter Rodney, " How Europe Under Developed Africa"). "

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