From the perspective of African peoples, the effect was?

Question

The 19th century, european countries claimed that the conquest of africa would bring the benefits of western civilization to that continent.

Answer 1

From the perspective of African people, the effect was enslavement, slavery, and exploitation.  The reason for their rebellion against the conqueror.  The truth is, the conquest of Africa never brought the benefits of western civilization to the continent, what it brought to Africa is exploitation and slavery of the people and its natural resouces, which benefited the western civilization.

The most historical factor shaping contemporary African politics remains the encounter with imperial rule. Colonialism defined the boundaries of the contemporary political units; dominant political forces and leaders in many countries began as movements of nationalist resistance. The social map was changed beyond recognition, with novel categories of class stratification and transformation of lines of racial, ethnic, and religious differentiation. Economic infrastructure and production patterns were shaped by the interests and needs of the colonial powers.

From the sixteenth century to the eighteenth, the main form of European intervention in Africa was the slave trade. Perhaps 12 million Africans were landed in the Western Hemisphere, many others having perished en route. This commerce was carried out from coastal establishments from Senegal to Angola; it began the remaking of African political geography, as its impetus led to mercantile African states formed around the supply of slaves.

Early in the nineteenth century, as the slave trade declined, European powers began to extend their influence into the interior by degrees, this "informal empire" of zones of influence was supplanted by colonial annexation. In the last quarter of the nineteenth century, intensifying rivalries between European powers and new military technologies (especially the machine gun) brought rapid partition. Britain, France, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, Italy, and Spain divided nearly all the continent among them.

Conquest was primarily a military undertaking. In its wake, colonizers were confronted with urgent tasks: structuring and institutionalizing their domination. Britain and France in particular had some experience in colonial rule, but African conditions were quite different. The shape of the colonial state responded to the imperatives of organizing alien rule over vast territories at minimal cost to imperial treasuries.

The first crucial goal was to consolidate colonial control over the territory. At the Berlin Conference in 1884 and 1885, where diplomatic agreement was reached among imperial powers on major outlines of the partition, the principle of "effective occupation" was enunciated. To confirm its title to a zone of African territory, a colonial power had to demonstrate to its European rivals that it exercised military control over the area; failing this, an imperial rival might snatch it away.

"Effective occupation" was to be achieved, however, with small outlays. Finance ministers and parliaments in Europe insisted that military commitments be kept small, and that the newly conquered territories pay for their own administration. Important consequences for the colonial state flowed from the twin imperative of consolidating hegemony and generating revenue.

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