Adeyemo, Babatunde Adeoye. 2019. “Colonial transport system in Africa: Motives, challenges, and impact.”African Journal of History and Archaeology 4. Aminu Saleh College of Education, Nigeria.
This journal discusses the motives, challenges, and impact of the colonial transport system used in Africa during the colonial period. Besides transport, this journal also covers the primary motive for colonizing Africa and the colonizers’ economic gains. Further discussion is provided on the exploitation and economy in general across colonial Africa. Using examples, the author explains strategies the colonial authorities applied to exploit the resources available in different countries. This document will help provide support when writing the essay since it contains more information about the historical perspective of colonial governments.
Bernhard, Katie P., Edwin Sabuhoro, and John Dattilo. 2022. “Colonial Influence on Local Relationships with Leisure and Environment in East Africa: Intersecting Two Literatures to Reflect on Domestic Ecotourism.” International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure: 1-20. Web.
The authors in this journal article create a link between influences created by the colonial authorities to the local people in East Africa. The article compares how the locals in East Africa viewed leisure and how that was affected by their natural environment. The authors of the journal state various leisure activities before colonialism and then compares them to the activities they started doing after colonialism. Literature evidence is provided in the article to support and describe how the colonial era redefined leisure activities among the local communities and their perception of nature. This article will help come up with a solid argument when explaining how the colonial authorities influenced the local communities to have a new perception of leisure and a way of looking at other daily activities.
Bolt, Jutta, Leigh Gardner, Jennifer Kohler, Jack Paine, and James A. Robinson. 2022.African Political Institutions and the Impact of Colonialism. No. w30582. National Bureau of Economic Research.
In this article, the authors discuss different politics used in Africa and how such politics have been impacted by colonialism. Discussions are made about the institutional events of the pre-colonial period, during the colonial period, and post-colonial period. The authors use specific examples as well as indicate different events that occurred in other parts of Africa. Such discussions will be helpful when writing the final essay and will create an opportunity to discuss a wide range of political institutions of the colonial era, as well as discuss how these institutions impacted the people in Africa.
Gobo, Prisca A. 2020. “Legacies of Colonialism in Africa.” International Journal of Innovative Science and Research Technology, Volume 5.
The author of this journal provides a brief history of colonial legacies in Africa, followed by several topics about the colonial era. Additionally, this journal offers major points about colonial policies used by the colonial powers in Africa. The author explains how such policies were enacted in different parts of Africa and how they impacted the local communities. This article also focuses on the pre-colonial period to determine and explain how interactions occurred among African communities and the European colonial powers who had started capturing their territories. This article will be useful when drawing points about the interaction process between the colonial powers and African communities during colonization.
Jerónimo, Miguel Bandeira. 2018. “Portuguese colonialism in Africa.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History. Oxford University Press.
This article talks about the Portuguese colonial empire in Africa in general. The author provides history from when the Portuguese first entered Africa to when they left. The article discusses many things about the Portuguese, including how they used their power to control their African colonies as well as expand to other parts of Africa. Within the period when the Portuguese were in Africa, various activities, developments, and impacts they created are all mentioned in the article. Additionally, the article discusses how the local communities were impacted by different rules and forces imposed on them by the Portuguese during colonialism. This article will be helpful when writing an essay on colonialism in Africa since it provides a clear and factual discussion of a specific colonial empire, the Portuguese.
Lake, Haliston, and Kristin Shockley. 2022. “Colonialism in Africa: the impact on sexual and gender-based violence.” FAU Undergraduate Research Journal 11.
This journal focuses on how colonialism in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) affected sexual and gender-based violence. It investigates how widespread sexual violence became normalized in DRC due to colonialism based on how the locals were treated or handled. Besides sexual violence, the authors also mention other harsh conditions women underwent during colonialism. Additionally, the authors also include other countries in Africa with similar experiences within the study. Including this source among the sources to use when writing the final essay will create an opportunity to use historical incidents observed in the Democratic Republic of Congo to explain how colonialism impacted sexual and gender-based violence.
Lutchman, Vishaal. 2019. The Effects of Colonialism on African Leadership Culture. University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
The author of this article majorly focuses on how the colonization of Africa led to the change in the indigenous African cultures. The author provides and explains several factors during the colonialism period, and what led to the changes in leaderships, African beliefs, social norms, cultural identity, and community structures. The author of this article has also grouped the effects of colonization of Africa into subcategories depending on an argument made, and it affects only a specific group. With the help of this source, readers can quickly know why understanding colonization effects can help leaders prevail in the African leadership culture. This source is interesting as it creates a narrowed view of colonization’s effect on the African leadership culture.
Maddox, Gregory. 2018. Conquest and resistance to colonialism in Africa. Routledge.
This study consists of a collection of articles that majorly focuses on the struggles made by Africa during colonialism. The articles are collected and grouped to cover the interaction between the European powers and African people throughout the document. This technique is helpful and has helped in creating a study document containing more historical information that can be applied to different sections when writing an essay. Furthermore, the articles in this study collection indicate that conquering Africa was a process that lasted many years. All the mentioned articles within the study are useful and related to the topic of colonialism. This study will be helpful when applied in the upcoming essay as most arguments are contained within the many related articles.
Obinna, I. Ohaja. 2019. “The Impact of Christianity, Islam and Colonialism on Indigenous African Religion and Cultures.” Journal of Philosophy, Culture, and Religion. Babcock University, Nigeria.
This journal article discusses the circumstances and cases that are essential in order to assess the nature of the impact that colonization created on Nigerians and other parts of Africa. To make it clear and easier to understand, the author first discusses the traditional religions in different parts of Africa before the colonization process began. Later, the author also discusses how such religions changed due to colonialism and the introduction of Christianity and Islam. When providing the points, the author mentions how colonialism resulted in a forceful change in indigenous cultures and religions. This paper will provide further arguments about how colonialism affected tradition, culture, and religion.
Okinedo Omovutotu, Emmanuel, and Tania Mwiza. 2019. “Impacts of colonialism in Africa: A case study of Ethnic Identity and Ethnic Conflicts in Burundi.” Ph.D. diss., Malmö University.
This research paper explains how colonialism affected a specific ethnic group in Africa. Within the paper, the authors discuss two ethnic groups in Burundi, the Hutu, and the Tutsi. The paper studies the origin of Burundi’s ethnic conflict and how the colonizers contributed to the conflict. Several techniques that the Belgians used to colonize Burundi are discussed and evaluated based on how they speeded up the ethnic conflict between the Hutu and Tutsi. This research paper will create a chance to provide a specific example of how colonialism impacted Africa.
Parashar, Swati, and Michael Schulz. 2021. “Colonial legacies, post-colonial ‘selfhood’ and the (un) doing of Africa.”Third World Quarterly 42, no. 5: 867-881.
This article captures the effects caused by colonialism on Africa’s development based on post-colonial results and politics. The authors focus on investigating the efficacy and endurance of power relations propagated and devised by the European colonial powers in Africa. The authors further explain how colonial legacies left within different parts of Africa still impact the places. An advantage of this article is that it cuts across history to current time, whereby many events are discussed and their effects examined. By providing such explanations, the readers can grasp the important points captured by the historical events mentioned. This article is helpful in the final essay writing process since it captures a wide range of effects experienced in Africa due to how the colonial powers ruled different territories.
Roessler, Philip, Yannick Pengl, Robert Marty, Kyle Titlow, and Nicolas van de Walle. 2020. Cash Crops, Colonialism and Legacies of Spatial Inequality: Evidence from Africa. Working Paper.
The authors of this article discuss how countries get exploited through colonialism, whereby natural resources are extracted and exported while the colonies remain poor. Another topic of discussion in the article is focused on inequality and how the colonial powers raised the inequality issue among their African territories. Additionally, other major topics covered in this article include slavery and Africa’s transformation process after colonialism. The discussion topics included within this document create a different viewpoint and argument that can be used when writing an essay about colonialism in Africa. This paper is more interesting because it discusses most activities conducted by the European colonial powers in Africa, thus creating more valid arguments based on historical evidence.
Schneider, Edgar W. 2018. “English and colonialism.” In The Routledge handbook of English language studies, pp. 42-58. Routledge.
This is a chapter in a book that provides an explanation and argument about the British colonial powers in Africa explicitly. The author explains how different ways used by the British colonial authorities led to different varieties of English in Africa. The author refers to English used during the colonial period by different African communities as “Englishes” since the people spoke it differently. This book chapter not only talks about English and colonialism, but also provides a brief history of how British colonial powers applied different strategies while colonizing parts of Africa. This source will be useful for the upcoming essay since it creates a link between language and the colonial powers and provides insight into different strategies used by the colonial powers in different parts of Africa.
Stapleton, Timothy. 2018. Africa: War and Conflict in the Twentieth Century. Routledge.
This book talks about African warfare in the twentieth century in general. It covers history from the pre-colonial period, during the world wars, the colonial period, and also the process of decolonization. This book captures the colonization process, and more information is available from when the “Scramble for Africa” began. The European powers and their techniques during the colonial period are included within the book as well as how they captured their African territories. The author has covered most historical information during the colonial era, providing more chances to create perfect arguments using the book. The general information provided in this book is essential and will help in writing the final essay while making arguments and conclusions that cover important sections of the topic.
Yackee, Jason W. 2022. “Colonialism, Foreign Investment, and Property Rights Reconsidered.”Univ. of Wisconsin Legal Studies Research Paper 1744.
In this article, the author closely reviews French colonialism in Africa while arguing about investment and colonialism. The focus is made mainly on French Equatorial Africa while using colonial investment patterns applied within the region when explaining points. The French colonial power is deeply discussed, and their territories within the parts of Africa are also covered well. The author in this article uses historical events, theories, and data to make more explanations, and this will help during the essay writing process by providing factual data to boost the strength of an argument. Additionally, several examples from the colonial era are made within the article to create an easy understanding of the points and arguments made by the author.
Záhořík, Jan, and Linda Piknerová. 2018. Colonialism on the Margins of Africa. Routledge: 711 Third Avenue, New York.
This is a book that provides a discussion on specific African territories belonging to different geographical positions and how they played important roles during the colonization by the European powers. Different topics are discussed within the book and will assist in providing valid arguments when writing the essay. To help readers understand the contents of the book easily, the authors focused on a single territory per chapter. They then discussed the diverse aspects of the colonial powers within that territory. Based on what most interests the reader, this article can be used in explaining most arguments about the colonization of Africa. This book will help find major points to include within the essay as it contains a wide range of information about many territories.