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The Anopheles Mosquito: The Reason Why Nigeria Never Became a Settler Colony
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The truth of the injustices of French, British, Belgian, Dutch and Portuguese colonialism in Africa will never be fully told.
What ends up in documentaries are bits and pieces of the actual brutality of the crimes committed by Europeans on African soil.
Africa, without question, has been the greatest solution to Europe’s problems. And when I say ‘problems’ I refer to the issues of wealth generation and social cohesion among Europe’s peasant populations.
And the words of Cecil Rhodes are especially informative:
I was in the East End of London (a working-class quarter) yesterday and attended a meeting of the unemployed. I listened to the wild speeches, which were just a cry for ‘bread! bread!’ and on my way home I pondered over the scene and I became more than ever convinced of the importance of imperialism…. My cherished idea is a solution for the social problem, i.e., in order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets for the goods produced in the factories and mines. The Empire, as I have always said, is a bread and butter question. If you want to avoid civil war…