Wednesday, April 28, 2010

African Independence

In the late 1800's, Cecil Rhodes was a british explorer who was a racist thinking that all other race except english was savage or wasn't perfect as the english symbolizing British. He thought the English(British) was the most superior of all others. He explored Africa and thought that the Africans need help to be cultured and industrial and he also wanted the africans to be Christian with out there concent. He thought he was doing them a favor, but in actual fact most of the African's did not want to change the way of life that currently had and did not want to be controlled. Instead of changing and helping the African's, Cecil Rhodes conquered them and controlled them the way he wanted them to be as like the british. Cecil Rhodes was nationalist in other words he was very proud and had alot of pride in Britian. He changed many things most of the country were changed. Some of the Africans even also thought that British was a perfect society to be under, but they saw that british were fighting amongst themselves and had other economic and crude problems. This started the development of Africa's own Government and Constitution. The story starts by, british settlers had taken prize farmland in the northen highlands of kenya. They fiercely resisted independence for kenya.

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