Exploitation Of Africa By The West
And that is without even taking the preceding centuries of the slave trade and colonialism into account.
Exploitation of africa by the west. The atlantic trade brought new crops to africa and also more efficient currencies which were adopted by the west african merchants. Food prices have risen. Western europe and north america are the major destinations for forced sex workers. As a result free school meals supplied by the world food programme are being cut for example by 50 in kenya.
May 20 2017 mallence bart williams explains the systemic theft and deliberate exploitation thats occurred for centuries. The exploitation of africa by the west. Trafficking slavery exploitation uneven development introduction the etireno rocks gently against the quay. Many west african countries also already had a tradition of holding slaves which was expanded into trade with europeans.
Throughout west africa britain tended to exert its power indirectly often cooperating with african kings. The continent of africa endows a large amount of natural resources that has been extracted and exploited for centuries. This can be interpreted as an institutional reform which reduced the cost of doing business. Britain has never faced up to the dark side of its imperial history.
Other forms of exploitation are perhaps less obvious. Thats more than the entire african slave trade up to 1850. The exploitation of africa and africans by the western world since 1500 made an invaluable and even an indispensable contribution to the building of the economies of three continents south america north america and europe while products that embodied large quantities of cheap african slave labour were used by europe to seriously harm the economy of another continent asia. Where we are the ones with the actual gold reserves its quite everything that the eight is in fact my coming from the west africa but from africa to the western.
The british established a system of law and order in these colonies. However many african countries still rank among the poorest nations on the. Since the 1970s 30 million have been sold into slavery. The wealth of the west was built on africas exploitation this article is more than 14 years old.
The smallest ship in a small west african port. Forms of exploitation at work in different relations of power. Each year anywhere from 200000 to 500000 women get trafficked to the west from developing countries. West africathe british colonies in west africa were nigeria the gold coast present day ghana sierra leone the gambia andafter world war icameroon.