History of Africa

History of Africa

Based on the Book “Things Fall Apart” describe the impact of European Colonization on the people and the Cultures of Africa. Answer: In the book Things Fall Apart the relationship that develops between the villages and the missionaries in Mbanta and the Missionaries and Okankwa gives you a picture of the impact that the Europeans had on the people in Africa. The relationship between the missionaries and the village shows you a culture that is infiltrated from the inside out. The European missionaries came in and slowly drew in the people of that area and converted what they believed and their way of life to what the Europeans had said was the proper way of living according to their God and their culture. And the African people not having an as sophisticated way of expressing them selves were drawn into the European ideal. However, what this did was slowly eat away the African cultures of that area. Because of the new way that the villages were being run because the people were converting cultures started to slip away. The missionaries certainly had an impact on African society as the standard of living had been changed, for the better and for the worse. Most Africans held true to their own traditions, there own religion, and their own customs. Back in early African history, Europeans colonized and infiltrated African civilizations in order to make a profit and to be known as a superior nation. By doing this, European colonists “messed up” the traditional African lifestyle. African’s were willing to let the colonists join them, but the Europeans went too far when they took over governments and tried to rule over the Africans. This colonization led to many problems in Africa,that still affect modern day Africa. The concept of colonization has been the leading factor of worldwide expansion since the dawn of man’s first governing bodies. On many occasions colonization pertained to uninhabited lands, but the majority includes land already previously neolithically...

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