![]() ![]() The colonizers were well known for creating strife and disunity among the different tribes that inhabited these lands, for their own long term benefit. ![]() They were like lost souls riding on a tide of fear and the unknown. The truth is that colonization not only robbed the African natives of local resources, it also robbed them of respect and love for their own culture, as Achebe aptly notes in Things Fall Apart (Achebe, 14). It also served to make the natives subservient and compliant to the colonizers, who viewed them as nothing more than cheap labor. As Joseph Conrad pointed out in Heart of Darkness (Conrad, 8), colonization was undertaken for specific motives, the most direct being to loot and plunder the resources of these conquered lands and send them back to the home country. ![]() Influenced by the writing and historical accounts of western writers, most of whom are notoriously biased and one sided, we readily jump to the conclusion that it has lifted Asia and the dark continent of Africa out of the wilderness and backwardness and brought to it the fruits of Western civilization. ![]() One often marvels at the wonders of colonialism and what it has supposedly achieved for the natives of the colonies. ![]()
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