Positive and negative1/8/2023 Leaders who failed to follow the rules of the colonial masters were deported and sometimes killed. The colonial masters literally controlled the leaders through threat and humiliation. This negative effect of colonialism reduced the number of able-bodied men in Africa.Īlso, colonialism reduced the prestige that was given to many African leaders. In fact, it was actually practiced by the colonial Masters because they were the ones in need of slaves then. High level of slave trade, deportation and humiliation of Africans: With the introduction of colonialism, the idea of slave trade was introduced in Africa. The local language of Africans, religions, names, education, dress, music, sport etc were replaced with foreign ones.Ĥ. They disregarded African culture, changed anything that wasn’t in their favor and made gullible African to see the new culture as the best. ![]() From that book, we could see how the colonial masters treated African culture as inferior and theirs as superior. Cultural imperialism: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart has already said much on this. It divided Africa into French speaking countries and English speaking countries and that is one of the major problems of the Economic Commission of West Africa States (ECOWAS).ģ. This was as a result of the merging of all the regions in 1912 by lord Lugard.Īccordingly, the difference countries which colonized Africa also caused disunity in some way. Take for instance, in Nigeria today, it is argued that colonialism is responsible for the religious and tribal disunity in the country. It created the problem of disunity: Another negative effect of colonialism in Africa was the disunity which it brought. During the time of colonialism, people were highly taxed by the colonial Masters so as to generate funds to make their plans of colonization successful.Ĭoupled with that, the colonial masters made sure that they were in charge of all the metropolitan industries, thus making Africans economically dependent on the colonizers.Ģ. They took all the wealth and resources of Africa to their own country. The idea of colonialism was introduced to make Africa forever dependent on the colonial masters. Economic dependence and exploitation: In as much that the colonialism brought development into Africa, it was also a form of exploitation too. Take for instance, the common legal system in Africa allows for easy and safer international transactions.Īlso see: Why indirect rule failed in Eastern Nigeria Negative effects of colonialism in Africaġ. After the demise of colonialism, this helped to build good relationship amongst African countries. Common legal system: Another advantage of colonialism in Africa is the common legal system which was introduced by the British to all her colonies. Transportation systems like railway, seaports, airways, roads, bridges etc were used to solve the barrier to movement in the colonies.ħ. Development of morden transport and communication systems: Majority of the celebrated technologies that has helped to make transportation easy in Nigeria and other parts of Africa were put in place by the colonial masters. The introduction of a central bank which supplied all the French colonies the same currency helped to promote inter-state trade among the colonies.Ħ. ![]() Though this is with the exception of Guinea. ![]() Common central bank: Colonialism in Africa also introduced a common central bank in the French colony. ![]() Banks were created to keep money and Africans really enjoyed this development because it solved a lot of problems with the trade by barter system.ĥ. In 1912, the first silver coin were introduced by the British and the West African Currency Board was setup.Ĭolonialism also introduced the banking system to Africa. The colonial masters introduced money and educated Africans on how the money currency could solve the problems of trade by barter. Introduction of money currency: Trade by Barter was the only way of transacting in Africa until the introduction of colonialism. In Nigeria for instance, political parties like NCNC, UPC, NNDP, AG etc, were established to stand against colonialism in the country.Ĥ. Indirectly, it can be seen that colonialism actually caused the establishment of political parties in Africa. The idea of political parties came into place due to the struggle for independence.
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