Hypocrisy Of Imperialism In Africa

I am writing this letter as the wife of one of your officers whom you sent to Africa for ‘trade’. I want to urge you to stop sending our people to the wretched and distant land. My husband stayed in Africa for ten long months and has returned a changed person. Before his trip, he always had an exuberance for life, and loved spending time together with our children. Now, he barely speaks, and his once kind eyes are cold and distant, as if replaying the horrors he experienced abroad. In order to prevent other families from experiencing this disheartening experiencing this, I urge you, sir, to stop these missions to Africa. From the little my husband has said since his return, the main areas with which he took issues fell into three main areas: hypocrisy, the colonial bureaucracy, and the violence and torture in the colonization of Africa. Unless the Great English empire can reform its imperialist practices in the African colonies, I fear that our reputation abroad and with our own people will cause resentment against the authority of the crown and parliament, but especially you sir, as you are the main representative of our great empire. Please, address these issues so that my husband can become himself again.
To begin, the overall hypocrisy of the imperialist practices is an issue that requires the full attention of …show more content…
My husband speaks about how different the world seemed in the jungle along the river; how everything seemed eerie and this resulted in many of the people in his imperial colony to take out their stress on the locals. He spoke as if the others used violence as a cathartic experience and that they attempted to force him to join, but he always refused. Sir, these practices would be illegal in Great Britain, why should they be tolerated in our imperial colonies, as the colonies, by definition, are the extension of our