Imperialism in Africa via Europe

That is a massively sweeping statement, though you do go onto to explain that it wasn't actually that bad at all.

British colonisation of (eg) Rhodesia in 1890 catapulted a people who lived in the iron age and who had not even invented the wheel into the modern era in a few years. Literacy, rule of law, education, banking, currency, roads, railways, bridges, harbours, airports, health care, vaccinations, democracy etc etc etc would still be unknown in Africa were it not for British / European colonisation. Slavery was also widespread and was stamped out by the colonisers of the Victorian era. It was a period of progress unknown in human history: we are often told that the Roman invasion of Britain was a good thing as it brought so many advances ... well, the Colonial period did that for Africa a hundred times over.

Some colonisers were much more altruistic than others, of course - the British were possibly the fairest, while the Boers, Germans and the Belgians were among the worst.

That is a massively sweeping statement, though you do go onto to explain that it wasn't actually that bad at all.

British colonisation of (eg) Rhodesia in 1890 catapulted a people who lived in the iron age and who had not even invented the wheel into the modern era in a few years. Literacy, rule of law, education, banking, currency, roads, railways, bridges, harbours, airports, health care, vaccinations, democracy etc etc etc would still be unknown in Africa were it not for British / European colonisation. Slavery was also widespread and was stamped out by the colonisers of the Victorian era. It was a period of progress unknown in human history: we are often told that the Roman invasion of Britain was a good thing as it brought so many advances ... well, the Colonial period did that for Africa a hundred times over.

Some colonisers were much more altruistic than others, of course - the British were possibly the fairest, while the Boers, Germans and the Belgians were among the worst.