Colonialism By Adu Boahen: Chapter Analysis

The publication of African after they were free from slavery is something that can influence the reader and such a secondary document containing just four chapter recorded the events. This secondary source was written by A. Adu Boahen, who was there recording detailed facts about the events that were unfolding in Africa and how the entire world power came to that one location. His main argument when recording these events was to show everyone the impact on Africa during the past hundred years of colonialism. Even after slavery was abolished the white men still had an influence on Africans life by forcefully invading and setting up colonies, although they were free. In African Perspective on Colonialism by A. Adu Boahen, he talks about various …show more content…
Although they rebelled during this time, colony only had one positive outcome from all of this craziness and that would be improving Africa around each colonies, which Boahen focus on at the beginning of chapter three. Furthermore, let’s talk about the rebellion that had occur throughout all regions of Africa and many of these were bloody to the end that some had been suppressed by outside power. The “Elite” class returned from abroad and they saw what was happening, as a result these “Elite” class started movement to revolt against the colony established on their land. One thing to say is that it 's truly amazing how he introduce these elites and graduality show how they begin a change for the good of their land, which additionally lead to one of the most famous rebellion mentioned in Boahen text which he said “The most famous rebellion in East Africa, however, was the Maji Maji rebellion, which aimed at expelling the German from Tanganyika”(65). Boahen did not fail to accommodate the smaller rebellion in his text, showing how the Elites movement was getting across Africa. Nevertheless, he wanted us to see the outcome from these rebellion for which they face dire consequences that had lead to many brutally suppressed with many Africans killed lead by the …show more content…
The way he use each chapter to talk about the uprising of a new class of people called the “Elites” and gradually kept the story line on a time track as to how they came to play an important role in driving these colonies out of Africa and certainly did not fail to deliver how the scramble escalated so rapidly, not to mention the period after colonialism in Africa. As for Boahen overall text, this read literally enhance my understanding of postcolonial Africa, because of such amount of details put into the outline that even the smallest details did not seem irrelevant in reading African Perspective on Colonialism. I found it amazing how he kept it understandable by introducing small event that would soon become the turning point for Africa. Giving so much information I found this text included everything you need to know when trying to understand this event and hard to find any question since he stated the aftermath of