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1 day ago · Starting in the 1850s German commercial enterprises spread into areas that would later become German colonies in West Africa, East Africa, the Samoan Islands, the unexplored north-east quarter of New Guinea with its adjacent islands, the Douala delta in Cameroon, and the mainland coast across from Zanzibar.
- 31,025,468 km² (11,979,000 sq mi)
- Colonial empire
1 day ago · Portugal pressed into the hinterland of Angola and Mozambique, and explorers Serpa Pinto, Hermenegildo Capelo and Roberto Ivens were among the first Europeans to cross Africa west to east. [194] [195]
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1 day ago · Gold Coastians – Ghanaians ( Ghana) v. t. e. The Gold Coast was a British Crown colony on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa from 1821 until its independence in 1957 as Ghana. [3] The term Gold Coast is also often used to describe all of the four separate jurisdictions that were under the administration of the Governor of the Gold Coast.
You people are insane literally. Europeans attempt to colonize Africa lasted about 50yrs which coincided with malaria treatment. By the time Europeans had tried to colonize Africa, the North Atlantic Slave Trade had been outlawed lol. 99% of the time in human history, slaves were enslaved by the same race.
When the Europeans were genociding and colonising Africa, Asia, Americas etc. the natives there had and still have their own culture, which was/is very different from European culture. Yet it was still wrong for the Europeans to colonise and genocide them and it was right to support the anti-colonial anti-settler movements in Africa, Americas ...
3 days ago · 5/5: THE MARVELOUS BOOK THAT ACCOMPANIES THE 6-PART PBS TELEVISION SERIES Henry Louis Gates Jr. (born 1950) is Director of African and African American Research at Harvard University, as well as a professor, historian, filmmaker, and ‘public intellectual.’ This book parallels the 6-part 1999 PBS series, ‘Wonders of the African World.’ He explains in the first chapter, “I got the idea ...
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2 days ago · Gunpowder and cannons were invented in China. But constantly warring Europeans made better use of them and had a better system for organising their military. Based on that, they began to colonise the rest of the world, suppressing and even destroying some civilisations (Aztecs, Incas), extracting first colonial, then neocolonial rent.
