JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it. Date: Abstract: This study primarily sought to investigate the effects of colonialism on the cultural identities of Africans, using Ghana and South Africa as case studies. Cultural identity was categorised into 3 major components; customs and traditions, language and land and it is within this ambit that both theoretical and empirical literature were sought and discussed to achieve the study objectives.
Hence, this research confined itself to events during and after the colonial period and apartheid period in the case of South Africa. Ghana and South Africa were chosen as case studies because amongst other reasons, both were colonised by the British and the Dutch at different periods and so served as a good basis for comparison.
This study was based on the hypothesis that colonialism was unable to wither away completely the cultural identities of both Ghana and South Africa. It at worst affected certain aspects of culture, land and language, but not significant enough to leave both countries without their indigenous cultural identities. Africa was filled with such incredible natural resources such as; copper, ivory, and rubber, the europeans countries competed among themselves.
The European Imperialism in Africa and Asia Imperialism started in the late eighteenth century and continued to the early s when Europeans took over different countries to obtain economic, political and social power. The five reasons behind imperialism were exploratory, ethnocentric, political, religious, and economic. Exploratory meant people went to a new area of land to learn more about it and discover new things.
Ethnocentric meant they wanted to spread their beliefs, cultures and customs that they thought were correct and religion reasons were similar because they wanted to spread their religion.
Political reasons were so that they could obtain power and economically, they wanted to make money through trade and new businesses. Braford E. Burns argues that modernization was preformed against the will of the majority and benefited a small group of Creole Elite, while causing an exponential drop in the quality of life for folk majority.
Burns supports his research through a series of dichotomies. Within the first twenty years of the nineteenth century the majority of Latin America gained independence from Spain. He writes about how the immediate difference is causing these races to be on the brink of extinction, mostly because of how backward these races are.
Evelyn Baring document 7 writes about how a European is better educated than an Oriental and a better thinker as well, but they also have a bond of hard work between them. During this time the British had colonized in Egypt, like they had in many other countries. The difference was that Egypt also took this as a good thing and they began to learn from the British and try to make themselves more educated and like the.
The education tests, Grandfather Clause, and Black Codes all express that Reconstruction was unsuccessful. This was on account of it didn 't finish the objectives of Reconstruction since one of the two fundamental objectives of Reconstruction was to increase social liberties for liberated slaves.
Thusly, this turns out to be unsuccessful in light of endeavors at taking without end the privileges of African Americans, which undermined this bigger objective. Through state governments, laws were made which took away the rights that they were attempting to be picked up by African Americans, for example, voting, being able to pick who they work for, and not being oppressed.
The motivation behind southern state governments taking endlessly those rights from African Americans was to reproduce servitude and reproduce an arrangement of white pecking order, which in fact had been banned.
Towards the close of the nineteenth century and the start of the twentieth century, European imperialist governments in their quest to expand their territories for various reasons aggressively scrambled and invaded the African continent.
Initially, the gullible African societies, most of which were decentralized, welcomed the foreigners but after realizing the stakes some mounted resistance Johnston, As expected, the more sophisticated imperialist governments prevailed in most of the colonies and subdued the natives. The effects of the foreign presence were monumental, and it would take more than half a century for these colonies to free themselves from the oppressive rule and become independent governments.
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