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The Conference split the various African civilizations up and forced people to live with others who did not share common practices, traditions and beliefs. “The territorial adjustments made among the colonial powers and the fragmentation of the continent, without due regard to ethnic and linguistic boundaries, remains a lasting consequence of the Berlin Conference” (Korieh2). The Berlin Conference and colonizing of Africa has brought great hardship to the land and people of
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Africa is now fifty countries, because the Berlin Conference separated Africa into fifty regions instead of the thousands of different tribal regions that it had been set up as. “This new map of the continent was superimposed over the one thousand indigenous cultures and regions of Africa” (de Blij 1). It is believed that because the country of Africa originally set up their boundaries based on the location of the thousands of different tribal villages that many would remain undiscovered if the Europeans not imposed their mapping of the regions. The continent previously had only settled the coastal region of Africa. “At the Berlin Conference the European colonial powers scrambled to gain control over the interior of the continent” (de Blij1). The conference made the exploration and discovery of the middle of the region happen much sooner and more peacefully. The splitting up of this nation was done very calmly as compared to how other lands were discovered and overtaken, using the United States as an example. Also, the people of the conference thought they were bettering the people of Africa by bringing them into western civilization, education and their belief in God. Additionally, the African people brought cheap labor to the advanced industrialized nations of the conference. The Berlin Conference felt …show more content…
The Hutu’s first used power as their means of overcoming by killing thousands of Tutsi’s. They then won as political leaders as they elected the first president, Greg wa Kayabanda of the Independent Republic. The Belgians offered little to no support to the Tutsi’s during this revolt, realizing that the Hutu’s far outnumbered the Tutsi’s. They also hoped to establish better relations with the Hutu’s since they saw the inevitable happening (January). Belgium began to feel unsettled and unsafe and realized their reign of governing had finished. The killing of the Tutsi’s that occurred at the time of the departure of Belgium acted as an indicator of things to come with the Rwanda
Africa is now fifty countries, because the Berlin Conference separated Africa into fifty regions instead of the thousands of different tribal regions that it had been set up as. “This new map of the continent was superimposed over the one thousand indigenous cultures and regions of Africa” (de Blij 1). It is believed that because the country of Africa originally set up their boundaries based on the location of the thousands of different tribal villages that many would remain undiscovered if the Europeans not imposed their mapping of the regions. The continent previously had only settled the coastal region of Africa. “At the Berlin Conference the European colonial powers scrambled to gain control over the interior of the continent” (de Blij1). The conference made the exploration and discovery of the middle of the region happen much sooner and more peacefully. The splitting up of this nation was done very calmly as compared to how other lands were discovered and overtaken, using the United States as an example. Also, the people of the conference thought they were bettering the people of Africa by bringing them into western civilization, education and their belief in God. Additionally, the African people brought cheap labor to the advanced industrialized nations of the conference. The Berlin Conference felt …show more content…
The Hutu’s first used power as their means of overcoming by killing thousands of Tutsi’s. They then won as political leaders as they elected the first president, Greg wa Kayabanda of the Independent Republic. The Belgians offered little to no support to the Tutsi’s during this revolt, realizing that the Hutu’s far outnumbered the Tutsi’s. They also hoped to establish better relations with the Hutu’s since they saw the inevitable happening (January). Belgium began to feel unsettled and unsafe and realized their reign of governing had finished. The killing of the Tutsi’s that occurred at the time of the departure of Belgium acted as an indicator of things to come with the Rwanda