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Europeans were the first to gain the ability to project power on a global scale and thus became the colonisers. There is a borderline racist trend in some parts
by DC-3 6y ago
Europeans were the first to gain the ability to project power on a global scale and thus became the colonisers. There is a borderline racist trend in some parts of academia to frame colonialism as being a consequence of the inherent value system of white Europeans - but while it is true that racist and chauvinistic attitudes were used to defend colonialism, I think it is fairly certain that had Africans been the first to develop the ability to administrate a state across oceans then we could be living in a world now where England, Italy, and Denmark are struggling to reclaim their respective identities and sovereignty after only recently gaining freedom from their Yoruba and Kongo oppressors.
- asa4akj 6y agoAfricans had European colonies before Europeans had African colonies. Carthage predates Rome, and Carthage had colonies all over Hiberia, which Rome later conquered.
- DC-3 6y agoWell the Carthaginians were semitic people from modern-day Lebanon IIRC, so it's a bit of a stretch to call them African.
- JPLeRouzic 6y agoCarthage was in what is now called "Tunisia". It was founded by people from Tyre which is indeed in Lebanon. After gaining independence in the seventh century BC, Carthage gradually expanded its economic and political hegemony across northwest Africa, Iberia, and the major islands of the western Mediterranean. In 146 BC, after the third and final Punic War, the Romans destroyed Carthage and established a new city in its place. All remaining Carthaginian dependencies, as well as other Phoenician city-states, came under Roman rule by the first century AD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Carthage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Carthage