“Pain and Suffering”
According to Edward W. “You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were once a victim-- there has to be a limit.” Africa was colonized by the Europeans. The Europeans had a conference to divide Africa up and the Africans weren’t present. The Africans were treated as what some people called abused. The Germans described the Africans as uneducated, worthless, and pitiful. Colonialism has negatively impacted African cultures because that is something that they are going to remember and never forget.
During the colonization of Africa, the Africans were split up between European countries while the Europeans were having The Berlin Conference. European colonizers all came together to figure out who was getting what part or parts of Africa. In source 4, it states that the cake the Germans were eating which was named “Afrique.” This cake symbolizes dividing up Africa’s colonies. As the man stated “Come have a piece of this, “magnificent African cake.” Some of the countries got bigger and larger pieces of Africa than others did. Countries who were powerful before became even more powerful because of the separation. This affected the African’s future because they have no say so about the division of them not being together. The separation made the brothers become enemies …show more content…
Carl Peters wrote about his life journey experience. He talked about the world we live on in the excerpt he stated “We are here perhaps on the oldest piece of earth which has certainly been turned toward the sun for million of years.” Meaning that this world may still be holding together but there are parts of it that a falling apart like Africa. Africa has been tortured a lot by the Colonizers and there is no freedom that they have to say whatever and do whatever to protect them and stand up for what they want. Mr. Carl talked about something called Lubuger la Poronand Kenia he said that it was the first
According to Edward W. “You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were once a victim-- there has to be a limit.” Africa was colonized by the Europeans. The Europeans had a conference to divide Africa up and the Africans weren’t present. The Africans were treated as what some people called abused. The Germans described the Africans as uneducated, worthless, and pitiful. Colonialism has negatively impacted African cultures because that is something that they are going to remember and never forget.
During the colonization of Africa, the Africans were split up between European countries while the Europeans were having The Berlin Conference. European colonizers all came together to figure out who was getting what part or parts of Africa. In source 4, it states that the cake the Germans were eating which was named “Afrique.” This cake symbolizes dividing up Africa’s colonies. As the man stated “Come have a piece of this, “magnificent African cake.” Some of the countries got bigger and larger pieces of Africa than others did. Countries who were powerful before became even more powerful because of the separation. This affected the African’s future because they have no say so about the division of them not being together. The separation made the brothers become enemies …show more content…
Carl Peters wrote about his life journey experience. He talked about the world we live on in the excerpt he stated “We are here perhaps on the oldest piece of earth which has certainly been turned toward the sun for million of years.” Meaning that this world may still be holding together but there are parts of it that a falling apart like Africa. Africa has been tortured a lot by the Colonizers and there is no freedom that they have to say whatever and do whatever to protect them and stand up for what they want. Mr. Carl talked about something called Lubuger la Poronand Kenia he said that it was the first