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5 reasons why the European came to Africa - Opera News - 2 views

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  • he first Europeans to come to Africa's West Coast to trade were funded by Prince Henry, the famous Portuguese patron, who hoped to bring riches to Portugal.
  • to expand European geographic knowledge, to find the source of prized African gold, and to locate a possible sea route to valuable Asian spices.
  • In 1441, for the first time, Portuguese sailors obtained gold dust from traders on the western coast of Africa.
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  • Portuguese sailors gained permission from a local African leader to build a trading outpost and storehouse on Africa's Guinea coast.
  • By the start of the 16th century, almost 200,000 Africans had been transported to Europe and islands in the Atlantic. But after the voyages of Columbus, slave traders found another market for slaves:
  • By 1619, more than a century and a half after the Portuguese first traded slaves on the African coast, European ships had brought a million Africans to colonies and plantations in the Americas and force them to labor as slaves
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European Exploration and Africa's Self-Discovery.pdf - 2 views

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  • The 1963 letter in the East African Standard provoked heated discussion on the significance of the explorers f
  • This amounts to a claim that African attempts to deny credit to European explorers were like denying credit to discoveries in medical scien
  • But here it is worth distinguishing between 'discovering' Lake Victoria and discovering the source of the Nile-which another correspondent argued was Speke's real
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  • gery Perham, 'these discoverers... illustrate human purposefulness in such extreme and naked fashion as to take on a symboli
  • In Henry Morton Stanley, however, the dominant themes were the scientific and the exploita
  • ligion and science were fused in Africa's first contact with Europe. The African Association played a significant role in promoting this kind of activity. An important personal motive was the quest for what Milton called 'that last infirmity of noble mind', the desire for fame and immortality.
  • It was not simply that historians may have spent too much time studying the explorers; more important was that western attitudes to the study of African history were perhaps significantly affected by the kind of 'data' which explorers brought back as information.
  • ical. To some extent European explorers and European colonialists did significantly help in lightening the darkness, in the physical se
  • Their contribution was towards a greater awareness of the physical geography of Africa rather than of African society. Indeed, it might even be argued that, while the explorers unravelled the mysteries of African mountains, rivers, and lakes, they also created the clouds which obscured an adequate vision of African life and culture. Tod
  • Because of these past mis-reportings, African historiography now has to be more selective than it otherwise need have been. Indigenous African historians are especially conscious of this.
  • The discoveries of the anthropologists helped to correct some of the myths-to which the physical explorer had lent greater credibilityabout an Africa steeped in sa
  • The anthropological researchers came to provide a different kind of inform
  • Both types of information were historically valu
  • another strong influence on the explorers, besides the scientific spirit, was the European romantic movement, associated with the spirit of anti-scie
  • life. They helped to perpetuate the idea that Africa was devoid of history, since 'darkness is not a subject of histo
  • Africa. On the contrary, there were times when Africa was favourably falsified as the land of the noble savage, with all the grandeur of moral simplicity. But this was no nearer to a complete picture.
  • Secondly, even in the part they played in distorting African social reality, the explorers may well have contributed towards Africa's own self-discov
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The Historical Role of British Explorers in East Africa.pdf - 6 views

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  • The major exploration of East Africa was accomplished over a roughly twenty-year period after 1856inaseries ofjourneys made byBurton, Speke, Livingstone, Baker, Cameron, Stanley, and some lesser figures.
  • Writers of the colonial period, not surprisingly, found little difficulty in connecting up the work of the explorers with the advent of colonialism in what was assumed to be a continuous historical process.
  • explorer Joseph Thomson was directly responsible for the extension of British rule over Kenya
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  • The importance of the explorers lay in the fact that they brought the evil to European attention so that action could follow; presumably, therefore, their principal impact was on humanitarian groups who pressed governments into action
  • In essence, they were saying that since the arrival of European colonial rulers marked also the establishment of order, education, Christianity, and economic opportunity-in a word, progress-it must be the case that the explorers, because they were also Europeans, initiated the progress. 5
  • Undoubtedly the explorers' discoveries of the great lakes and the source of the Nile constitute a highly significant episode in the history of exploration and of the development of geographical ~cience.6With unprecedented rapidity, the blank maps of the middle belt of Africa of 1850 were filled with lakes, mountains, rivers, and the names of the principal peoples.
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      rorirapiletsa03 on 19 Apr 23
       
      If it was not for the explorers then the maps that were drawn in Europe would be incomplete or wrong
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      rorirapiletsa03 on 19 Apr 23
       
      Explorers believed that without them, Africa would not be progressed and they brought European teachings in order to make them behave more like Europeans and not like "Africans"
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      rorirapiletsa03 on 19 Apr 23
       
      avoid
  • explorers provided much of the source material for the nineteenth-century history of East African societies, they themselves were ignored as irrelevant.
  • explorers had to behave to some extent like Africans or at least had to accept situations as they found them if they wanted to proceed with their travels
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      rorirapiletsa03 on 19 Apr 23
       
      Explorers had to make sure that they fit in with Africans, in order for them to continue exploring Africa further
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