![]() ![]() ![]() Many African and Africanist historians appear to believe that some African countries would be industrialized today if the Europeans had not come by to disrupt things. French colonial troops attack Africans in Dahomey As we have seen, it was terribly easy for the industrialized European nations to defeat and colonize the agrarian African kingdoms and village confederacies they encountered. It goes without saying that if African polities were industrialized in 1885, colonizing them would have been a far more dangerous and difficult-even impossible-proposition for Europeans than it was. ![]() The economically and militarily dominant powers on the planet today are industrialized nation states. ![]() The countries they partially or wholly colonized around the world were not. The countries that colonized Africa were industrialized nation states. Were African kingdoms and polities on the road to industrialization before the Europeans came by to disrupt their progress? Were the colonial powers stifling all attempts at industrialization by Africans under their control? These are questions that far too many people imagine have straightforward unimpeachable answers. ![]()
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