Colonization in africa (Blog Twelve)

Since we are reading the book Things fall apart and is it based on the culture in Africa I think it would be good to stay on the same topic and find an article about colonization in Africa. I found an interesting topic on wikipedia about Africa experiencing colonization from Europe. For the early Europe expeditions they wanted to focus on colonizing places that are uninhabited islands, as in the Cape Verdes and Sao Tome Island, or the wanted to create costal forts as a base for trade. Parts of Africa weren't really invaded until later on during the late nineteenth century. A man named Vincent Khapoya mentioned a little about Ali Masrui's three reasons for European exploration of Africa and they were: to increase knowledge, to spread Christianity and lastly to increase national esteem. There were many countries as in Britain, Portugal and France that were already claiming areas for themselves in Africa. That really scrambled up Africa. In 1885 Berlin Conference established international compromises for the acquisition of African territory and that formed the New Imperialism. Between wars and everything it almost added up to 9 million square miles of colonial possessions. When I read this article on Wikipedia it really reminded me about what we have been learning in class about colonization in Africa and all the different countries that have invaded Africa. It really does make a huge effect on the country and over many years Africa has been colonized in numerous areas. I think that when we get further along in Things Fall Apart this article will relate a lot to what is going to happen in the book.

The map is of West Africa in 1736 and is the expanding of what belongs to countries from Europe like Holland Denmark etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Africa