What were the negative and positive effects of imperialism in Africa on the colonised?
Note that Africa is a large geographical entity and hence, effects varied from region to region. Some citizens appreciated some of the Western ideas and disliked others. However, some people resented the Westerners because they treated Africans so horribly. An extreme example is apartheid in South Africa. The Colonizers usually showed no equality, democracy, or political freedom to people of different races other than their’s. Native people’s would have low-paying jobs in the bureaucracy. To many Africans, colonialism meant loss of farmlands or employment on plantations. Furthermore, most colonial frontiers were established with disregard to ethnic boundaries. This caused problems later on, for instance, fighting between the Tutsis and Hutus in Rwanda.