Inevitability of the African colonisation

Inevitability of the African colonisation

Before I begin to discuss the question of the inevitability of the

colonisation of Africa by the European powers I want to say that,

colonisation as we know it; the taking over of a country by another

country and the forcing on of a different culture, is always evitable.

At least it should be. However we have to include the fact that we’re

all human beings which think their own good superior to the one of

others, and of course that we’re all creatures which are enormously

curious of the unknown. Whatsoever there are obviously more reasons

which lead to nearly a whole continent being colonised, economic

reasons, social Darwinism, national prestige, Missionary and

humanitarian impulses, Military advantages, the will of exploration

and scientific discoveries. Looking at all these reasons schematically

I’ll convince you of the evitability of the colonisation of Africa.

To begin with, one of the reasons for colonisation was economical.

The industrial revolution taking place in 1750-1800 provided the need

for cheap raw material and there was a surplus capital in Europe so

people were looking for new markets to sell their manufactured goods,

without a new market the level of industrial production would go down

causing problems like unemployment rates going up and social unrest at

home. Also there was a specially high demand for products like tea,

coffee, palm oil, and rubber, - exotic products which were only to get

outside of Europe and which were regarded as luxuries. However all

these economic reasons can not advocate colonisation because Europe

could have just started to trade with African countries, without

totally exploiting them. But this was obviously not possible because

of prejudice, leading to the next great point in my essay.

Social Darwinism, Darwinism states that the fittest survive, because

they own special characteristics such as the ability of obtaining food

in the most productive way, or special skills in combat. In

continuation it states the evolution of men and the stronger groups