Why is the world not interested in South Africa anymore?
Hallo daar. Interesting facts you're pointing out. And yes, if we look at the truth, the world is loosing interest in us. (Sadly)!!! But what did you expect? All you read about South Africa is corruption, murder on tourist, all the bad things that is taking place in SA. When last did you hear something positive. Changing all the cities names, for example: Johannesburg International Airport, is changed to O.R. Thambo (Who is he anyway???). Pretoria, now Tshwane (the worst part of it all, not even the black people are sure if Tshwane was a leader in their culture, some never even heard of him). Now I know you must wonder what this have to do with your question, well here goes: If the South African people doesn't know where all this places are (with the new names), how will the people abroad know where they're going... Many people didn't even know Johannesburg, what to say about O.R. Thambo. Tourism is playing a huge fact in the interest of other countries in South Africa. This is rediculous!!! And as you said, the taxpayer is paying for all this bullshiit. We are ruled by a bunch of monkeys, so why would you want to visit a country zoo if you've got a zoo in your own country???????? And let's face it, apartheid is actually worse than in the apartheids-era. Think about it people, apartheid has just changed from white to black... (I know not all of us, but open your eyes and see, blacks hate whites, and white hates black!!!!) Sometimes it feels like I'm standing outside, watching South Africa turning into a huge murder and crime scene!!! Face the facts, just open the newspaper and smell the blood!
What were the negative effects of the colonialism in Africa? What caused them?
Negative impacts of colonialism in Africa tends to circulate on one major factor ‘culture’ be it economic, agricultural, social or religious. here are a few factsThose leaders who could have made Africa strong because of their influence, were killed by colonisers or arrested this left societies divided and unorganised.Colonists used the ‘divide and rule theory’ this theory brought about divisions in the African traditional society and setup. Divided as we were, acted to the advantage of our oppressors and opportunists who penetrated in the veins of our trade and agriculture and stole pieces of land.Increased slaveryAfricans were forced to drop their dressing codes, cut their hair and traumatised in their own land.Our religious ideologies were rendered useless and backward thus forced to drop them.In African Traditional setup, we did not have words like rape or theft but we had cattle rustling European culture destroyed or that and brought in new challengesAfricans were forced to drop cultivating their own traditional food stuffsEuropeans came with diseases like measles, chickenpox, smallpox, polio that were unheard of before.Europeans came with mass murder weapons like bombs and guns and used them upon AfricansMost Africans were forced to fight in the first and second world wars by colonialist (their wars not our wars) and none, absolutely none of those ware rewarded or their families except for badges that they participated in the helping wherever.Africans were subjected to the colonial experience including forced labour, land alienation, taxation, poor wages, discrimination corporal punishment rape and murder.read more here:The Slave Trade in East AfricaESTABLISHMENT OF COLONIAL RULE IN KENYA.The Positive and Negative Impact of Colonization in AfricaI hope you will enjoy reading
To what extent did African people benefit from the "Scramble for Africa" in the end of 19th century?
Africans didn't benefit from the scrabble for Africa in any other way except for the end of internal African Slavery in most of Africa. The international slave trade was already banned and the final nail in its coffin was with Brazil coming to the party late in the 1880. Europeans like to trumpet this end of slavery fact to make themselves feel better, but much of the scramble took place after the commerce of slavery had ended.There were exceptions, the Congo run by King Leopold of Belgium was basically an enormous salve camp up until other Europeans so appalled by the extent of the abuses reported (even by their crappy standards of the period) ended his control via Diplomatic pressure at the Conference of Berlin. Limited slaving continued in a few places along the edge of the Sahara and via place like Portuguese Mozambique right up into the 1900s. Slaves from Katanga, the North of Malawi & Zambia for the Middle East Market where traded out of Mozambique for decades. In the country I grew up in the last big battle against Slavers by local European and Christian volunteers happened at Karonga in what is now the North of Malawi in 1905, which is in the life time of my Grandparents and it probably went on for a while longer in more remote areas. It should be noted that Slavery has re-emerged very strongly recently in West Africa and South of the Sahel with indentured labour contracts and the trade of children to work.How ever even if the "Scramble for Africa" ended Slavery it wasn't a happy ending. The end of Slavery was not that good as it was replaced by another kind of servitude in most African colonies in the form of "head tax" or "hut tax".This forced Africans into the cash economy to work for the colonisers to pay the yearly tax. It was especially punitive because at the same time in many places Africans were forced off the best agricultural land to make way for settlers . This meant they found it harder to produce cash crops to pay the head tax and had to go to work for the colonisers at very low rates of pay, for longer and longer periods or be jailed.There were few if any benefits in The Scramble for Africa 1860 -1899 for Africans. Some benefits came latter but only some and many did not survive the post colonial period of Dictators, civil wars, pseudo socialism or the AIDs epidemic in a form that has had meaningful benefit for average Africans.
Describe the effect of the old imperialism on African populations?
Massive depopulation in the Congo, South Africa. For instance, 10 million people died in the Congo Free State when it was under the control of the Belgian King Leopold II. African tribal states were broken up and amalgamated with former enemies or people they've never even seen before. Different religions collided such as Islam and the Christian faith that missionaries were spreading especially in West Africa. The Slave trade was being stamped out too while trade as a whole especially involving commodities like Palm Oil and ivory were increasingly being controlled by Europeans