Michael Victory
Exploiting the colonies
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By Michael Victory
October 21, 2010

The colonial educational system, inherited by the African countries was not properly modernized to meet the needs of the African people. It also was not designed to increase literacy among Africans but more to perpetuate dependency among the people.

According to Gaye (1998), education which could have been a tool to empower the local people so they could direct their own development, became an instrument of plunder, used by the few educated individuals to exploit the rest of the people for their own benefit and that of their European benefactors. The colonial educational system was designed more to assist the Europeans in the exploitation of African resources than it was to develop the native people of Africa.

Today exploitation of cultures continues to exist in countries around the globe. On the verge of potential peak supply of world oil, one can't help but wonder U.S. motives for a continued presence in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Are we occupying to liberate her peoples, or exploit her natural resources?

Gaye, M. (1998, Spring). Western influences and Activities in Africa. Journal of Third World Studies, 15(1), 65-79.




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