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Wolves and Untamed. An opinion piece on Colonialism

   I do not  think calling Africa's colonial masters Wolfs would offend them. Because it was all a story of greed and competition while all that time regarding Africans subhuman. I will look unforgiving and not at par with the prese nt by saying I still feel the scramble and partition of Africa was injustice, but I risk it. Jomo Kenyatta the First Kenyan president and Pan Africanist sums its up diligently in his book 'Facing Mount Kenya'. When the white man came, we had the land and he had the Bible. We closed our eyes to pray and when we opened our eyes, he had the land and we had the Bible. The story of the use of religion to colonize is well too common. And am not only talking of the British occupied land back then as was Kenyatta's situation. The French in West Africa, The Portuguese in South Africa, The Belgians in Congo, The Germans and every other power used quite the same trick. Send Christians first before occupation. But why would one do that?

COLONIALISM AND LATER - INTRODUCTION (AN OPINION PIECE)

The story of non-Africans visiting Africa in the hope of finding wealth was not introduced by the Europeans. In fact many years before, People from Asia and Far East were visiting Africa many hundreds of years before. The first Europeans who visited Africa were the Portuguese who took back with them stories of immense wealth in Africa both in its natural resources and slaves. In fact the first Portuguese who came to Africa took back with him two black captives to the King as a gift and of course as evidence of his setting foot in the black continent. But none had a greater effect to the stability or lack of the same to Africa than the mass arrival of Europeans in the late 19th century. Most of the Africa we know today, we must admit, was completely different and is as it is because of the arrival of the Europeans and subsequent partition of Africa after the Berlin Conference. As a matter of fact apart from the Ancient Kingdom of Ethiopia and the freed slaves state of Liberia, every