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... for the Week of May 8, 1999
... for the Week of May 1, 1999
King Leopold of Belgium coined Africa best: It was a "magnificent cake," one large enough for everyone to share. Driven to feed the industrial monsters and satisfy their Greed and their God, Europe descended upon the Dark Continent from the mid-1800s until the First World War. In between was a brutal scramble that left tensions between European nations high, and millions of Africans dead. While Europe claimed to be only exercising its natural paternal role, indigenous tribes resisted. But in the face of western technology, they faced bloody odds. While culture spread and learning increased in Africa, the longest legacies were not good ones. So to was the case in India and China. Manipulative European nations took advantage of these nations, hoping to use them as gateways to trading with the east. But the Sepoy Rebellion in India and the Boxer Rebellion in China made the native feelings clear. Europeans were not wanted, but their influence would continue into the 20th century.
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Despite
his name, a cross-continent railway is of what Cecil Rhodes
dreamed. It will never, to this day, be realized, smothered by the
collective western greed.