World Civilization 2

Vanna PierreSaint
History: World Civilization 2
Professor: Chike B. Nwadiogbu
Friday Class 5:30pm

Imperialism- government, authority or system; the power and dominion of a nation. The creation and/or maintenance of unequal economic, cultural, and territorial relationships, usually between states and often in the form of an empire, based on domination and subordination.

My article Imperialism and Africa is letting us know that imperialism is something that runs crosswise the entire continent of Africa and should be examined at a monumental scale than that of an individual country. The Russian revolutionary has defined imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism which meant the countries and the various empires of Europe were searching for the coarse profits.
Britain, Ger some(prenominal), France, Belgium, Portugal, and Italy, were in search for a new material such(prenominal)(prenominal) as: cheap labour and new market further the continent of Africa was divided amongst themselves and had re divided again after(prenominal) the First World War. these boundaries were completely artificial, and gisted in dividing previously peaceful, co-habiting tribes, which were posterior set against each other; for example, the Hutu and Tutsi tribes in Rwanda.



Lenin, writing in 1916, during WWI pointed out that this process of division was a necessary result of capitalism. The capitalists divide the world, but because the degree of concentration which has been reached forced them to trace this method in order to obtain profits. The late 1950s and early 60s, a wave of revolts and uprisings in many African countries led the imperialist nation-states to conclude that their traditional room of oppression were no longer possible. Economic domination with nominally independent states became the norm.
Africa had become the new stage of the Cold War. Dictators, such as Mobutu in Congo, who replaced the assassinated independence leader Patrice Lumumba, were intemperately backed by the USA, whilst nations that espoused socialism, such as...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



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