African colonization?

Question

African colonization

why the european going to africa? why were their motivations?

Answer 1

As Europe had outlawed trading of humans Europeans needed to get goods from Africa so to gradually take over and pretend to help the areas devestated by the slave trade and to help other areas they were able to build infrastructure in order to export natural resources and minerals for free and profit completely in Europe.

Like the Americas were getting free labor Europe was getting free resources and again Africa was exploited and lost.

Europeans gained:

Fertile lands

Gold, Diamonds, copper, bronze etc

Wood

Oil other fossil fuels

Tropical food

While they pretended to be helpig by building things which were only to export the goods to Europe.

Rail roads

Roads