Absolute nonsense. But ok, I'm sure an anonymous teen going by the name Swa on mybb is far more informed than a harvard university professor. Swa, who doesn't know what a fact is This is not alternative facts, it's all pure speculation but some people speculate based on a deeper understanding of historical forces and geographical and economic realities while others, like Swa just make up **** to support their bigotry.
I'm sure you're aware that even professors don't always agree especially when it's not verifiable things like maths or chemistry. What I said about other African countries without a colonial influence is fact, unfortunately. And it's a far better parameter to speculate on than Zulus discovering gold mining. The only bigot here is you.
So black people aren't fighting for water, health care and universities? Nice to know. Now the white guy is said to have physically attacked the black woman? ROFLcopter, let her go and lay a charge then.
Alternative facts indeed. Please name one African country that was never ever colonized?
EDIT: I'm not saying anything about the good or bad of colonialism, just the correctness of the assertion that many African countries were never colonized.
Liberia and Ethiopia?
I want to employ you as my personal sexslave. I will feed you. There's your benefit.
For some people both of those are benefits, just saying...
Writing spread from China to Japan. No colonisation.
Spreading being the operative word. Face it, colonialism is just another way in which things spread. It's rare that something gets invented more than once in different places. What did any of the Bantu nations invent though?
Along with horrible experiences for the colonised that still affect their descendants negatively to this day. Which is why expecting them to be grateful is foolishness and counter-productive to building a unified South Africa.
Pray tell, how does it affect them today? As has been mentioned already most can't even remember apartheid let alone colonialism. It's all stories that are being told, most of it incorrect as well as we have seen on plenty of occasions. Everyone however is content on using the products of colonialism like universities, piped water, electricity etc. while the negatives have disappeared for everyone alive today. So what are these horrible experiences? Oh wait, must be white minority capital again...
*sigh* It's got nothing to do with political correctness. It has to do with history.
Edit: If an enemy of the roman empire still existed today. Say Gaul. Then they would still today hate the Romans.
That would be equally irrational, unless they were still enemies of Rome. To counter your example, how many Afrikaners still hate the British today? Practically none. Get over yourselves. Most of the world have had some sort of occupation but they got past it. It's only this subset of society that I see being left behind by the future because they keep clinging to the past.
Missionary work would have happened in the absence of colonialism too. All these benefits you're talking about happened despite colonialism, not because of it. The colonialists didn't build all this infrastructure to benefit anyone except themselves and often attempted to actively stop the use of this infrastructure by the locals, to prevent the locals from gaining the knowledge they brought with them. How much faster would Africa have developed if infrastructure, technology and education had been encouraged, shared, traded and developed among the local populations under local leadership, instead of being kept for the Europeans only, people who considered the local populations as either nothing but cheap labour or actual pests getting in the way of their plans?
Pray tell as well, how much faster would Africa have developed is it was left up to the locals. When Jan landed here there was literally fokol besides a bunch of Bantu tribes fighting it out. There was no cooperation between local populations and local leadership to speak of and nothing was being developed, AT ALL!
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