It’s Time to Tell the Truth About Colonialism in Africa

By: Casey Chalk December 23, 2022

 

Historian Bruce Gilley’s provocative book, ‘In Defense of German Colonialism,’ makes a compelling case that many historical narratives surrounding Africa are motivated by politics, not facts. America is inundated with narratives about the nobility of pre-colonial Africa. Hollywood’s “The Woman Queen,” is about an all-female warrior unit that protected the West African kingdom of Dahomey, has elicited lavish praise from corporate media this past summer. High school curricula such as that peddled by the 1619 Project or the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Teaching Hard History” excoriate the West for disrupting (and terrorizing) supposedly peaceful traditionalist African societies. And thousands of African American U.S. citizens have abandoned the nation of their birth by moving to countries such as Ghana in search of a better life — and a connection to their own ancestry............

 

Portland State University professor of political science Bruce Gilley has invested quite a bit of energy in trying to answer such questions. He has argued, quite controversially, that European colonialism was objectively beneficial and subjectively legitimate. Publisher Rowman & Littlefield withdrew his book “The Last Imperialist: Sir Alan Burns’s Epic Defense of the British Empire,” after a petition of more than 1,000 signatories accused Gilley of promoting “pro-colonial” and “white nationalist” views (it was later published by Regnery). His latest book, provocatively titled “In Defense of German Colonialism: And How Its Critics Empowered Nazis, Communists, and the Enemies of the West,” pushes the envelope still further................To Read More.....

 

My Take - There are things here I disagree with, but the real driving point of this piece is those who conquer do what they want, and that included the warring tribes of Africa, and did worse to black Africans than did the Europeans did, at least in most cases.  

 

Now if you wish to find fault with their Christianity, then you have a solid argument,  But if you're demanding we all accept the idea they were "bad people", well that doesn't float as they were no worse than the people they conquered, and mostly better and there's no doubt Africa is suffering from the take over by black leaders who only consider their own tribes as people, and all other tribes to be used and abused, and those nations are filled with corruption and decay, and one more thing.  

 

Those American blacks who think they can move there and the motherland will support them: These nations do not want American blacks to come there unless they can bring something of value to the table.  You're not one of them!!! Get over it!