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World War 2 in Colonial Africa

Introduction

Richard Osborne's World War II in Colonial Africa reveals the Historical background of African Continent during the time period of World War II. It gives us a reflection of various African wars and their relation with each other. This fine piece of historical work by Richard, gives an overview of the conflicts in Asia, Europe America and the surrounding oceans of Africa. Basically this book is related with the wartime experiences of Africa and African people and takes into consideration how African nation's experiences affected the ultimate decolonization of the continent. This book provides broad and an over all sweeping survey of World War II within Africa and states the starting of European Colonial Africa's downfall. African continent has been the devil "raped" brutal. He is thousands of years been a stronghold of demonic princes. After the Flood, he was re-populated, but the man succumbed to the worship of demonic gods. Tribal wars, slavery, witchcraft, Satan worship, and ritual murders were caught in the Dark Continent, and the civilization did not develop beyond the Stone Age, except in North Africa, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia and some parts of West Africa (John 151).

Discussion

Africa has been dominated by colonialism; superiority of one country to another and whose motivation may be economic or political. In both cases, it is a significant investment. Indeed, when the invading country lands on his unused land, he returned to possession of the wealth of the host country. It all started in the fourteenth century with the Portuguese and Henry the navigator with the help of scientists began the exploration of Africa and took a monopoly on the ivory, gold and slaves.After the abolition of slavery in the nineteenth century, the Europeans invaded North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa. Many conflicts arise between the colonial powers.

Colonialism (from the Latin colonial: office or settlement) is the term for a system of economic, and political sway over regions of a country outside its own borders. Colonies originated from the land by military conquest or occupation or contractual agreements with the provincial authorities and were often developed from the establishment of trading posts, military bases or settlements of migrants.

In the historical sciences, the term colonialism generally describes the tendency of some European states to open new settlements and economic areas and expand their power base and to this extent, a first stage of globalization in European sign. This epoch, with the beginning of the early modern period began and after 1 World War II ended, reached its climax in the last decades of the 19th Century, in the heyday of imperialist competition among the major powers to the political power still untapped parts of the world. Greatest colonial powers in the 16th and 17 Century, Spain and Portugal in the 19th and 20 Century Britain and France, the German colonial possessions 1884-1918, however, remained insignificant.

At the end of the 19th Century, there was 85 percent of the earth's surface under colonial rule or in a semi-colonial ...