What are some bad things that happened in Africa because of imperialism?

Answer 1

During the whole Imperialism process, industrialization and civilization in general were almost nonexistent in Africa. In general, there was injustice for the African people. Africa was controlled by European powers who never took the quality of life for African citizens into consideration. Their only thought was for personal gain, to increase their influence. Even after African territories gained independence, the governments were anything but stable, and war broke out all over the continent. Imperialism basically created injustice in Africa. The most long-lasting effect was the arbitrary political boundaries which European monarchies established, and which ignored the previous tribal system. Most of these boundaries are still here today, and have been one of the major causes for African civil wars and conflicts.

Answer 2

Among other things, the Congo was run essentially as a personal fiefdom by the Belgian King Leopold I, who used a great deal of brutality in an effort to essentially extract as much wealth as possible, primarily in the form of rubber, from the colony. Coercive tactics such as mutilation and execution were commonly used in order to ensure compliance. See Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost (1998).

Answer 3

Apartheids, state sponsered terrorism, civil wars and of course partitions of lands which were considered sacred by their indigenous peoples. One also has to ask one self, what was the objective of imperialism, but more importantly what was the objectiveof colonialism?

Answer 4

Crime, people in need. Some people get bitten by mosquitoes and die because they don't have any pills or medicine to take.

Answer 5

The imperialists, for all their faults, imposed peace, brought jobs and sometimes schools and medicine.

Answer 6

they lost plenty of land.