Colonialism in 10 Minutes: The Scramble For Africa

An excerpt from the film Uganda Rising showing in a (very!) brief overview the utter decimation of Africa that took place via colonialism and the so-called "Scramble For Africa."

Despite the film's focus on Uganda, I think this excerpt sheds light on just how much of the violence that we see today actually has a colonial/European precedent rooted in exploitation and racism.

It's also an instructive lead in, I think, to Darfur in 10 Minutes: An Overview of the Conflict in Sudan.

Uganda Rising was produced by Alison Lawton.
It was directed by Jesse James Miller and Pete McCormack (me). Jesse also edited the film, and I wrote it.

For more about the film, visit www.ugandarising.com.

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• colonialism
• africa
• uganda
• sudan
• darfur
• rwanda
• congo
• chomsky
• mamdani
• pete
• mccormack
• IMF
• World
• Bank

[MrvelvetviruS]

Anywhere europeans went to the past to exploit resources, those places have become shitholes, anywhere europeans put a fuckin feet to become "owners of the land" have become lands of hate and desperation :S THANKS EUROPE FOR "CIVILIZED" THE WORLD IN SUCH HORRIBLE WAY.. filling us all with racial hate arround the earth

[ajahamza]

@DarwinzFriend WE can also document that the white race found these civilizations and cultures superior to what they came from in savage Europe. We agree here, Blacks were never as talented as Whites as far as radical raw hatred - used as a 'tool' to take over the world. you are just one of a whole generation of whites bigots who peddled notions of black inferiority. Sometimes I begin to wonder, is superiority being keen to look down on others and see them as nothing more than low lives?

[MTPatriot]

@MrvelvetviruS Maybe its because the people already living there were shitholes

[ShavedKnuckle]

@MrvelvetviruS All countries once occupied by the British were better then than they are now.

[InfiniteUniverse88]

If it weren't for colonialism the African people would be at the mercy of nature. More so than they are today. Instead of people killing people, Africans would be at the mercy of drought, famine, and pestilence. Although these causes of death are ever present in Africa, they indeed been minimized.

Although infant mortality rates, life expectancy, and literacy rates are unacceptable in Africa, they would be much much lower if weren't for European colonization.

[QBisbest]

0:21 I'll finish the rest tomorrow.

[sireforhire]

Albions are the vampires of the world.

[GreenBottleCap]

Modernization.

[TheSlySight]

@GreenBottleCap The defining difference between the previous conquests you mention and Europeans involvement in Africa is the legacy, which is the continued exploitation by big business and perpetual civil war caused by Europe's policy of divide and conquer. NOTHING good came from Europe's greed.

[pakheng]

@GreenBottleCap Indeed, all historical conquests possess some element of exploitation, cultural and population genocide. But history is notably fickle and selective, ( I majored in history after all) and the historical past will always give way to the recent one. You are correct in essence of course, today most (if one is not African) will not remember much about this particular episode of imperialism, most will use Adolf Hitler and the Nazis as a contemporary example. Great powers will exploit.

[GreenBottleCap]

@pakheng I'm just trying to say that Europe's conquest wasn't the worst of all great conquests. Just because it was the most recent great conquest doesn't make it any worse than the other great conquests that took place in history.