Question

Which sentence best describes the negative effects of European colonization in Africa?
A) Europeans forced borders without regard to ethnic or language groups suppressed African economic development and forced Africans to extract resources
B) Europeans exhausted all Africans salt resources in exchange for gold with the Arabs and prohibited the religion of Islam from spreading to other colonies.
C) European influences in Africa led to the downfall of Ghana Empire strange resources and lead to the downfall of the city of Tombouctou which was the center of salt trade and of Islamic learning and culture in west Africa
D) European spread malaria throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of Africa which caused 90% of death in these regions

Answer 1

A. When Europe colonized Africa, each imperial nation carved up its own territories of the continent. These territories included various ethnic and cultural groups who may have not gotten along before the Europeans came. Some territories separated tribes who were allies but now separated. When the European nations gradually left, they gave independence to the new territories in a political model that represents that of a European government and nation. The difference is that these new African nations had no national identity before they were colonized and had to run these new countries created by the Europeans by themselves with no experience or concept to do so.