Was Africa better before decolonization?
No.
The funny thing is that you people ask these questions in the internet without knowing what they mean. You think European countries suddenly became sympathetic and decolonized African countries, don't you.
Let me tell you something; if you are White, and lived in places like Congo or Kenya some 60-70 years ago, it is very likely that you would have been decapacitiated. Decapacitiated by hordes of Africans breaking into your room and pillaging into your property built upon stolen African land.
So “decolonization" is not something to joke about. Had the Africans felt they were marginalized, robbed, disenfranchised etc…. decolonization would not have happened. By the 1950s, decolonization was the only card the Europeans were left to play with as they lacked the economic and military capacity they had some 50 years ago, were faced with a substantial ideological opposition, and recurrent, unending resistance of increasing magnitude.
You can not consolidate your rule anywhere unless you wipe out the natives. That was what Europeans did in the Americas and Australia. The fact that Africans greatly outnumbered settler societies did not help either.
For the Europeans, decolonization signalled a major change in strategy; from direct colonialism by individual countries to a US/EU endorsed subtle, yet a very effective form of neocolonialism with which they indirectly rob third world countries to death.
Was Africa better before colonization? Well, it certainly was hell on earth for many Africans. This would be what the 250,000 strong Mau Mau of Kenya would have told you:
The funny thing is that you people ask these questions in the internet without knowing what they mean. You think European countries suddenly became sympathetic and decolonized African countries, don't you.
So “decolonization" is not something to joke about. Had the Africans felt they were marginalized, robbed, disenfranchised etc…. decolonization would not have happened. By the 1950s, decolonization was the only card the Europeans were left to play with as they lacked the economic and military capacity they had some 50 years ago, were faced with a substantial ideological opposition, and recurrent, unending resistance of increasing magnitude.
You can not consolidate your rule anywhere unless you wipe out the natives. That was what Europeans did in the Americas and Australia. The fact that Africans greatly outnumbered settler societies did not help either.
For the Europeans, decolonization signalled a major change in strategy; from direct colonialism by individual countries to a US/EU endorsed subtle, yet a very effective form of neocolonialism with which they indirectly rob third world countries to death.
Was Africa better before colonization? Well, it certainly was hell on earth for many Africans. This would be what the 250,000 strong Mau Mau of Kenya would have told you:
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