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Jenna asked in Arts & HumanitiesHistory · 8 years ago

how did the impact of the white mans burden affect Africa?

10 points to the best answer :) thank you!

My homework: Write a paragraph explaining the impact of the white mans burden on Africa. How did this ideology change Africa? was it positive or negative?

Thank you so much :)

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
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    The 'White man's burden' was only an idea, it never played out into anything significant. No investment in terms of finance, manpower or resources was ever made as a result of such a philosophy. Any investment made, was purely on a commercial basis or in support of political aims. The colonial governments and the British governments did not make decisions based on feelings of having a burden.

    The 'White Man's Burden' as an ideology had no effect on Africa and did not change Africa in anyway, negatively or positively. It was an idea that was never expressed in practical terms.

    Source(s): Lived, studied and worked in Africa for most of my life.
  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    Africa is a nightmare that i dont think of will ever be solved - for one reason, its packed with africans!! I undergo in concepts the 80's with the likes of Geldof and stay help which made various funds. seems maximum of that disapeared and probable ended up procuring the presidents enormous domicile or a pair of hundred packing packing containers of AK47's. we've had a brilliant effect on africa and a few for greater proper and a few for worse. Zimbabwe/rhodedea replaced right into a key occasion. I dont have self belief in white people being in africa, no longer in any super numbers besides. yet whilst the at present departed Ian Smith replaced into working the teach in zimbabwe issues have been lots greater proper off. African corruption is what's crippling the continent and it is going throughout the full economic equipment. the super dispatches series on channel 4 accompanied the life of a kenyan guy attempting to paintings in an african u . s . yet encountering corruption at each point. curiously i heard mugabe is the 10th richest guy interior the international. undecided how actual it incredibly is whether or no longer it wouldnt suprise me. possibly it incredibly is how issues are meant to paintings there. maximum africans international places are able to being the place western international places have been some hundred years in the past. How are they ever going to get any self comprehend with all of the handouts we are giving them, yet whilst they're happy being the unemployed tramps of the international, per handouts from the greater proper, richer adult adult males, so be it.

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