Tools of Exploitation Analysis

The tear/documentary, tit guide Tools of Exploitation, chronicles, analyzes and explains wolframern civilizations see on African culture/livelihood throughout the period of colonialism (the film covers the slave trade for a brief moment as well) starring(p) to the modern font day. Narrated by scholar/author Ali Mazrui, the film focuses on the usurping of Africas future possible due to European powers stymying Africas growth for their (Western) cause gain (hence the name Tools of Exploitation Africa was exploited for European gain).The film addresses legion(predicate) factors to why this has outletn place but focuses mostly on stinting reasons as well as the false justifications Europeans used to colonize the continent. wizard of the themes the documentary covers was the false pretenses that Europeans claimed to justify the Colonization of Africa. During the early 20th s in a flash (1900s), Northern and Eastern Africa still had a pervasive slave culture. In the North, the re mnants of the Ottoman Empire still practiced slavery, while the Muslims were the responsible figureheads in the East.Following the centuries of trans-Atlantic slave trade between Europe, Africa, and the New World, Europe had abolished the practicing of slavery. In 1884, the European powers that be called for the Berlin group discussion. Part of the conference was to organize The mingle for Africa. The term was used to describe the Wests desire to put in themselves as administrators of the African continent. One of the justifications for the conference/Europeans colonialism, was that the West had a duty to end the barbarism of slavery still lively on the continent through the Wests new give morality.Part of the Europeans plan for administration was also the fragmenting of Africa with artificial semipolitical boundaries. While this organized Africa in a convenient matter for the Europeans, it led to ethnic divisions/rivalries that are still in existence today. One of the injustic es of the Berlin Conference was that there were no African leaders invited to the conference how could Europe be making such important, influential decisions about a continents future, without consulting the people of that continent?The answer while Europe had abolished slavery, the racism date endure to the days of slavery still existed. The conference in public had no intention of freeing Africa of its negatives, but instead, exploited the circumstances/situations of Africa to dismiss the European commercial machine. One of the overlying themes to which Europeans, again, falsely the justified small town of Africa, was through the concept of the Duel Mandate. The philosophy/idea/ forge was created by English colonial military ruler Lord Frederick Lugard.In a written testimony Lugard rationalizes colonizing Africa by claiming to utilize the continents resources in order to fuel European commercialization as well as facilitate Africas modernization. The initial half of the equa tion did come to actualisation Europe conveniently gained access to Africans resources (first pre-colonialism through slaves and gold, accordingly later with mineral based resources during colonization). However, Europeans modernization of Africa was only if surface level.Africa was given bag (roads), skyscrape-esque buildings, commercial items (clothes, recreational technologies) but the African continent was not given the means for long term industrialisation to keep up with the world(a) economy. What does Africa benefit from having Western fashion? Africa has big downtowns, and business sectors, but what is the purpose when these buildings/businesses are powered by wrong(p) electricity? The vessels of modernization were left by Europeans, but there was no operating(a)ity or means of using the vessels for modernization.While the West was industrializing, Africa was being fed a message of false growth. Africa never had a chance to develop a means of self-creation/production in the 20th century. A perfect workout of this was cited in the film. The West African country of Liberia is a vast exporter of the primitive material for rubber, which is a major commercial commodity in the global economy. However, Liberia itself does not have the means to convert the raw materials into the final product, nub the country has to import (purchase) finished rubber from outside countries.Was not break in of the White Mans burden and part of the Dual Mandate, to turn over around Africa through use of its own resources? How is it that one of the richest continents with regards to natural resources could not take the next step towards mechanization/commercialization with the aid of the West? Again, the emphasised answer is that the West had no intention of aiding the continent in the first place. The economic shackles of colonialism were a pre-meditated, calculated attack on the development of Africa during the turn into the twentieth century.The lasting outcome h as left Africa crippled even now in modern times. With slavery, Africa already became under populated destroying a large potential for human development/advancement colonialism than hampered any immediate potential for industrial advancement in the continent. Now, modern day Africas urban areas/capitals have the appearance of advanced societies but are barely functional/beneficial as useful tools for everyday use (as Mazrui says, the buildings functions are slake).What is even more disturbing is the similar behaviors exhibited by Asian countries (specifically) china in modern day Africa through a sort of neo-colonialism. various reports detail foreign Asian workers entering African countries to build infrastructure (roads, pipelines, hospitals, etc. ). In actuality, these foreign influences are building conduits to ship materials back to their own coutnry. Tools of Exploitation not only chronicled the economic handicaps and lies that fueled colonialism in 1900s the film also desc ribes a similar blueprint that modern emerging powers are beginning to employ as well