How Did Imperialism Affect African Americans

Another man that describes the European attitude is Wole Soyinka an African man. Soyinka was born towards the end of Imperialism in Nigeria by Great Britain. He describes the attitudes of Europeans toward Africans. Soyinka grew up under Imperialism with the influence of European cultures, such as; religion and education. Soyinka wanted to inform how Imperialism affected Africans. In an interview he states, “I listened to lots of conversations between my father and his intellectual circle, in the direction of the colonial powers, the world was involved, the arrogance of the European nations towards darker skinned races” (Soyinka). This source shows how Europeans felt superior to the people of ‘darker skinned races’ because they were of a higher status, even after Africans had gotten their independence. Africans were under the rule of Europeans who believed themselves superior to Africans. Africans were often referred to as the inferior race by Europeans. The culture of Africans was diminished as the Europeans began colonizing Africa. Soyinka an African that lived towards the end of Imperialism in …show more content…
Kabango a leader of the Kikuyu Tribe in The Story of Kikuyu Chief, states “We elders looked at each other. Was this the end of everything that we had known and worked for? What magic had this on of my father made that he who was not yet and Elder should be made leader over us all who were so much older and wiser in the ways of our people? It was as if a thunderbolt had fallen among us.” (St. Barbe Baker). Europeans went against the customs of Africans in the government. Only elders were allowed to be leaders but the Europeans choose a young person to represent them with the Africans. The elders had lost all of their political power and it was all held by Europeans. They had lost all of their rights over their land in Africa and it was now being controlled by the