Effects of colonialism on Africa's past and present Part 01

<p>The effects of colonialism past and present are visible all over Africa.<br> <br> On this year's anniversary of Africa Liberation Day, African people all over Africa and wherever they may be on this planet must reflect deeply on their history as it relates to their present life conditions and to their future.<br> <br> AFRICA BEFORE SHE WAS COLONISED. Let me now move on to North-East Africa - ancient Egypt, and to other issues about Africa.<br> <br> The well-known archaeologist in Kenya, Dr. L.S.B. Leakey long wrote, "The critics of Africa forget that men of science today are without exception, satisfied that Africa was the place of birth of man himself and that for thousands of years...Africa was at the forefront of all world progress."<br> <br> Affirming this fact, Edem Kodjo, the author of Africa Tomorrow who is also a great researcher on Africa has written, "It is here in Africa that history began. Far from being a gratuitous assertion, this statement is an undeniable scientific fact for which one finds corroboration when one roves the world in search of the remains of the ancient civilizations. According to the present state of research on the origins of the progress of humankind and civilization, the Mother of Mankind; Africa remains the privileged source of the manifestations of intense human creativity."<br> <br> DESTRUCTION OF AFRICA BY IMPERIALISM. Africa was destroyed by imperialist Europe and is still being destroyed by Europe.<br> <br> Through the Berlin Treaty of 26 February 1885, the European imperialists sliced Africa into "Portuguese Africa", "British Africa", "German Africa", "Italian Africa," "Spanish Africa", "French Africa" and "Belgian Africa." There was no Africa left for Africans except Ethiopia, encircled by paupers of land dispossessed people who were now the reservoir of cheap native labor for their dispossessors.</p> <p><br></p> <p><a href="https://www.pambazuka.org/global-south/effects-colonialism-africas-past-and-present">https://www.pambazuka.org/global-south/effects-colonialism-a