Chapter 10 : COLONIALISM

Colonialism is the claiming of ownership and share of something that does not belong to you naturally or physically. According to (Wisdom Ndukwe)

Colonialism is the free exercise of contemptuous desires through forceful means, brutally disarming indigenous people to seize their resources, Massively killing native people to accumulate their wealth and drain their beauty and happiness. According to(Wisdom Ndukwe)

Colonialism is the illegal obtaining of something that does not belong to you in any form or shape. According to (Wisdom Ndukwe)

Just because you think you can do this and then you try to prove to yourself that indeed you can, knowing truely that it is wrong, knowing fully that it is not right.

When they came to colonize Africa many Africans resisted, Many of them fought against it, Many of them died for it.

Yet the devil insisted he must accomplish his devilish purposes, Then they brought colonialism and still defined it in their dictionary as the Exploitation of weaker country by the stronger one and the use of the weaker country's resources to enrich and strengthen their own country. (Advanced English dictionary)

According to a Google source; Colonialism is a practice or policy of control by one people or power over other people or areas, often by establishing colonies and generally with the aim of economic dominance. In the process of colonisation, colonisers may impose their religion, language, economics, and other cultural practices.

A colonial mentality is the internalized attitude of ethnic or cultural inferiority felt by people as a result of colonization, i.e. them being colonized by another group. It corresponds with the belief that the cultural values of the colonizer are inherently superior to one's own.

Majorly there are two types of colonialism: Settler colonialism and Exploitation colonialism. The Settler colonialism involves immigration at large scale as an outcome of religious, economic or political issues. Exploitation colonialism involves the trade and commerce like the export of goods or even the slave trade.

Colonialism is defined as "control by one power over a dependent area or people." In practice, colonialism is when one country violently invades and takes control of another country, claims the land as its own, and sends people — "settlers" — to live on that land.

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What Is Colonialism? A History of Violence, Control and Exploitation

(De)colonized is a series on the harms of colonialism, and the fierce resistance against it.

BY JAMILA OSMAN

ILLUSTRATION BY ALY MCKNIGHT

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Illustration of a Native woman sitting by a river bank

ALY MCKNIGHT

This article is part of In Session: The Teen Vogue Lesson Plan. Find the full lesson plan here.

Colonialism is defined as "control by one power over a dependent area or people." In practice, colonialism is when one country violently invades and takes control of another country, claims the land as its own, and sends people — "settlers" — to live on that land. Although the terms colonialism and imperialism are often used interchangeably, they are not the same thing. Imperialism is defined as a set of policies or practices that extend the power and control of a nation over the political, economic, and cultural life of other areas. Imperialism can be understood as the ideology, or logic, that drives colonial projects.

Two waves of colonialism

There were two great waves of colonialism in recorded history. The first wave began in the 15th century, during Europe's Age of Discovery. During this time, European countries such as Britain, Spain, France, and Portugal colonized lands across North and South America.

The motivations for the first wave of colonial expansion can be summed up as treasure hunt: because colonial masters felt it was their moral duty to conquer all the lesser countries within their reach and they believed they would reward themselves for saving the souls of colonial subjects; because colonizers would exploit resources of other countries in order to bolster their own economies; and glory.

since European nations would often compete with one another over the glory of attaining the greatest number of colonies.

Colonial logic asserted that a place did not exist unless white Europeans had seen it and testified to its existence,(fallacy) but colonists did not actually discover any land. The "New World," as it was first called by Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian navigator and cartographer, was not new at all: People had been living and thriving in the Americas and the Africas for centuries.

Yet, in many history books, Europe's expansion is remembered as exploration, and the men who helmed ships that landed in foreign countries and proceeded to commit violence and genocide against native peoples — are remembered as heroes.

One of these men, an Italian explorer named Christopher Columbus, even has a federally recognized holiday to honor him. Columbus thought he was on his way to Asia, but found himself in the Caribbean instead.

The first Indigenous people he came across were the Taíno, who accounted for the majority of people living on the island of Hispaniola (which is now divided into Haiti and the Dominican Republic).

They had a highly evolved and complex culture. But this did not stop Columbus from claiming the island and its inhabitants for Spain.

By 1550, a mere 58 years after he first landed on the island, what was once a thriving culture and community was severely decimated by European diseases and the brutality of a newly instated slave economy.

Colonialism is an illegal practice, It is an unjustly evil intensions, No country or continent created any other countries or continents, We were all created by God.

We should renegotiate the freedom of Africa and other colonized countries, If Colonialism is right then who ordered for it, Who created the colonizers and who colonized them?

Europe didn't not create any country, Romans did not create any country