COLONIALISM:did it benefit Africa.

If you think colonialism was not beneficial and you want to restore 'African Pride' and beauty then get rid of everything western and make it pure AFRICAN by wearing animal skin,do not use computers or internet because it keeps us in touch with the west or you be like Chinese Government and be controlled as to what site you can access. Do you want that? With English we can communicate with our African brothers and sisters. The process was gruesome and I would have never liked to be part of it but don't you ever think for a second this was the first step to development and to us being protective. According to my opponent 'colonial masters took our natural resources and used them to their advantage' why not turn the question around,what did we gain? They built roads,railways to connect strategic places,telegraph lines(Africans were amazed because these lines were able to carry messages),introduction of NEW CROPS like coffee and cocoa which supplied cash,freedom of religion as a basic human right was born and grew during colonial era,colleges could not have been met without government grant-in-aid made from 1920 downwards. Finally,take a good look at Ethiopia because they resisted colonialism have bad infrastructure and economy. .. .. .. .. .According to a French stateman LEON GAMBETTA 'to remain a great nation or become one,you must be COLONISED. " All right, i am going to try to confront every point that my opponent made and will expose some false statements that she made. 1. "If you think colonialism was not beneficial and you want to restore 'African Pride' and beauty then get rid of everything western and make it pure AFRICAN by wearing animal skin. .. .. " This statement is so stereotypical that its very hard to believe that someone who knows anything about africa would say something like this. I would like to ask my opponent if she really thinks that all Africans wear "animal skin". The actual fact is that not all africans wear animal skins. This is just yet one of the many distortions that people who live in mostly western nations grow up to believe, white and black. Of course, i can't blame this on my opponent, probably never having been to any country in africa. For most of the time in africa, people who still live in villages and live their traditional tribal way, wear cloathing that can be made out of cloth, beeds. Sure there are certain tribes that may wear a little animal skin but they account for a small percentage of africans. 2. ". .. .do not use computers or internet because it keeps us in touch with the west or you be like Chinese Government and be controlled as to what site you can access. " It is a crazy thing to say that if i want to be pure african i should not use internet because its not african. In case you didn't know, people of african decent played a major role it the development of the computer and internet. For example Philip Emeagwali who in 1989 invented the super computer which could compute 3.1 billion calculations in one second! He has also been rumored to have helped invent modernday internet. And yes, he is Nigerian. . http://www.black-inventor.com... John Henry Thompson, who is black, invented Macromedia Director. Thompson has helped develop MediaMaker, Actions, VideoWorks Accelerator, and Video Works II. . http://www.black-inventor.com... Therfore it is not "Un African" to use inventions that africans helped invent. 3. "The process was gruesome and I would have never liked to be part of it but don't you ever think for a second this was the first step to development and to us being protective. " Are you saying that before we where brought into slavery we did not have developed societies? Slavery was deffinetly not our first step to development. Some of the advanced civilizations we had were Axum, Empire of Ghana, Mali, Great Zimbabwe, Swahilli, Songhay and many many others. It is a lie that we were not "Developed" before the coming of the "white man". This statement is very ignorant. 4. "According to my opponent 'colonial masters took our natural resources and used them to their advantage' why not turn the question around,what did we gain? They built roads,railways to connect strategic places,telegraph lines(Africans were amazed because these lines were able to carry messages),introduction of NEW CROPS like coffee and cocoa which supplied cash,freedom of religion as a basic human right was born and grew during colonial era,colleges could not have been met without government grant-in-aid made from 1920 downwards. " We gained very little from these introdutions, considering the fact that the revenue made from these "Introductions" went straight into the hands of the colonizer. I would like to also say that not every road, railway, telegraph machine are a result of the Europeans but a lot the africans themselves made these. You say that Coffee was a "NEW CROP" to africa? You must no very very little about coffee. Do you not know that ethiopians have been making coffee for thousands of years? Ethiopian coffee is very known throughout the world. Also, freedom of religion existed before colonizers. Haven't you ever wondered why there is violations of freedom of religion in africa not until today. You talk about colleges yet you forget that in ancient times europeans would go all the way to mali, ghana, and egypt to go to a university. 5. "Finally,take a good look at Ethiopia because they resisted colonialism have bad infrastructure and economy. .. .. ." I would like to make it VERY clar to anybody who knows nothing about ethiopia. This statement made about ethiopia could not be any further from truth. She says that Ethiopia has bad infastructure and bad economy because they resisted colonizers. It is the total opposite. Ethiopia resisted colonialism and has good infastructure and good economy. Ethiopia has the fifth biggest economy in sub sahara africa. Ethiopia is the second largest non-oil dependent country in Africa. In the past 8 years the ethiopian economy has improved 11.8% annum. Their gdp doubled from 131 billion birr in 2006 to 246 billion birr in 2008 Source:Ernst & young ethiopia. WB Data Honestly, i dont think you should say something about a country you obviusly know nothing about. 6. "According to a French stateman LEON GAMBETTA 'to remain a great nation or become one,you must be COLONISED. " My response to this is that he is contradicting himself because his own country,France, is not colonized. 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