African American Influence In The 20th Century

Reading on a subject I do not know well has been enlightening, I was not aware of how much influence the world had so early in the 20th century. In reading I learned that in fact Both European and Germans had a grand influx during the turn of the century. Taking control of most of African in all directions and fighting wars among the natives as well as helping and hindering the culture that wished to thrive within the take over and influence. Within that first Decade of the 1900’s they had taken rule of Egypt by maintaining control over the Suez Canal as well as remain in charge of the military forces and foreign affairs in Egypt. The British did leave them to feel as though they still had some pull in allowing them to maintain control of their own internal issues. But it did not take long for a British to start war with an area of Africa that did not wish for change, they were known as the Boers. “The …show more content…
Most of South West Africa was scares of farming and the Germans hoped they could at least have grazing cattle to farm and harvest but that too did not work out so well. “In 1905, the German administration in Tanganyika ordered local people to give up their traditional pursuits and raise cotton on communal plots. The distressed people turned to their tribal priests, who gave them water medicine (maji) said to be powerful enough to protect them from the bullets of white men. A violent uprising against the Germans began in July 1905, and within a few weeks the Germans broke the main thrust of the revolt. But order was not restored in Tanganyika until 1907, with the war, famine and disease having killed an estimated 75,000 Africans.” Thus it not being a pleasant thing for the