Title: Colonialism in Africa: Bondage, exploitation and developments – Foreign Policy News
Headings: Colonialism in Africa: Bondage, exploitation and developments
Colonialism in Africa: Bondage, exploitation and developments
Anatomization of African Colonialisms
European Expansionism in Africa
The Colonial Order
European Colonial Powers and Role of Protectorates
Belgium
Great Britain
France
Germany
Italy
Portugal
Impact of Colonialism on African Societies
References

Content: As the speed of European imperialism optimized, many African peoples became very concerned—Uncertainties that Europeans would confiscate all the land led to a number of armed conflicts. By 1914 Europeans had taken over the entire continent except for ETHIOPIA and Liberia. European imperialism now moved into a new phase—establishing colonial administrations that would maintain order and provide economic benefits for the governing nations. [ 7]
The Colonial Order
European policy in Africa had two factions— the colonial government and the colonial economy. The colonial government was anxious with the affairs of a colony at the central and local levels. European officials subjugated most of the colonial governments until after World War II, when some countries permitted Africans to play a greater role—Europeans took steps to control trade and natural resources in Africa. The colonial powers swamped Africa with European-made commodities, causing many African industries to fail because they could not compete—Europeans also encouraged the growth of cash crops in Africa, with each colony specializing in a different crop which destroyed many traditional forms of agriculture. Some colonial governments levied taxes on Africans. To pay them, many Africans had to dispose of their land and work for wages on white-owned farms and in mines. [ 8]
European Colonial Powers and Role of Protectorates
Belgium
Belgium became a colonial power by accident— In the late 1870s, the King Leopold hired British adventurer Henry Morton STANLEY to obtain territory for him in Africa.