African Imperialism

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This paper examines how, in the 1880s, Britain annexed large sections of Africa in a combination of economic and strategic considerations relating to the rising levels of commercial and political competition in Western Europe. In particular, it looks at how Senegambia, the first British colony in Africa, received a constitution by act of Parliament in 1765 and how Gambia remained a British colony until 1965.

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"Emphasizing that "a survey of the scene in Africa before the coming of Europeans would reveal considerable unevenness of development," Rodney writes about colonialism from Egypt through Ethiopia, Nubia, Morocco, the Western Sudan, and East Africa to Zimbabwe. He spends considerable time on the political and military skills and exploits of the great Zulu leader Shaka Zulu. He stresses that the suppression and loss of this history is, of course, one of the large negative consequences of the entry of the imperialistic and racist Europeans."

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