It’s Time To Tell The Truth About Colonialism In Africa: Many historical narratives surrounding Africa are motivated by politics, not facts.

The Federalist ^ | 12/23/2022 | Casey Chalk

[dfwgator]

The Germans provided free and accessible medical care for many Africans. They engaged in extensive agricultural and infrastructure projects in Namibia, including roads, railways, water holes, and port facilities. A German scientist developed a vaccine that saved native cattle from a catastrophic illness. The Germans built a 1,250-kilometer railway linking Lake Tanganyika to Dar es Salaam, which to this day “remains the lifeblood of Tanzania’s economy and of Zambia’s trans-shipment traffic.” Economies previously based on slavery transitioned to coffee.

Ok, but apart from the medical care, agricultural, roads, railways, water holes, and port facilities, what have the Germans ever done for us?

[butlerweave]

How many Oscars will this movie get ?

[V_TWIN]

Oh I’m sure it’ll do well despite probably having a net negative at the box office

[TexasFreeper2009]

you left off ending slavery and stopping genocides

[Bon of Babble]

About that new film...from Larry Elder:

Take the 2022 movie “The Woman King,” starring Viola Davis, about African female warriors. It portrays white slavers as villains and the female warriors as antislavery avengers, and the film claims it is “Inspired by true events.”

The movie has been set-up as a having a historical basis, telling the story of the real-life Kingdom of Dahomey in the 18th and 19th centuries.… In reality, Dahomey was a notorious slave kingdom, and not the Pan-African freedom fighters as the movie presents them. They enslaved and murdered hundreds of thousands from other tribes and sold them into the slave trade.

Dahomey was renowned as the “Black Sparta,” and was a fiercely militaristic society bent on domination and conquest. Their soldiers struck fear into other tribes all along what is still known as the Slave Coast, as they captured tribespeople from enemy tribes and sold them as slaves.

https://thenewamerican.com/reparations-blackwashing-slavery/

[Bratch]

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[dfwgator]

“Oh, Peace.....SHUT UP!”

[NorthMountain]

And thousands of African American U.S. citizens have abandoned the nation of their birth by moving to countries such as Ghana in search of a better life — and a connection to their own ancestry.

I support this sort of thing. America is a horrible, racist place that is built on the oppression of Persons of Color. They absolutely SHOULD leave ...

[allendale]

The population of Africa grew exponentially once Western agricultural and medicine especially vaccinations were introduced.

[gattaca]

bmp

[FreedomPoster]

< golf clap>

Well played!

[Tupelo]

Three Questions

1: Name one successful Sub-Saharan nation
2: Name one pre-colonial invention from Sub-Saharan
Africa.
3: Name one pre-colonial philosopher from Sub-Saharan Africa.

[kearnyirish2]

The same occurred in Asia, and in both cases (though more so in Africa) independence meant now the indigenous leaders had to provide for their populations. Most former colonies in Africa are devolving back to what they were 10,000 years ago.

[Four of Six]

“Ok, but apart from the medical care, agricultural, roads, railways, water holes, and port facilities, what have the Germans ever done for us?”

Nothing!
~Monty Python and The Holy Grail~

[Redcitizen]

“Thank God my granddaddy got on that boat.” ~Mohammed Ali.

[dfwgator]

Wakanda?

[mewzilla]

For anyone interested...

Black Rednecks and White Liberals, by Thomas Sowell

See the essay “The Real History of Slavery”.

[DownInFlames]

Colonialism in Africa was conducted by the European powers, not the USA.

[Tupelo]

“Wakanda?”

In the anointed’s fevered dreams