Partitioning of Africa
Sub Saharan Africa stayed isolated for a long time while areas around it and in other parts of the world were being colonized and urbanized. This fact is due to a few but important factors: geography, religion/war, and technology. The southern part of Africa is geographically isolated by the largest desert (Sahara) to the north and the Atlantic and Indian oceans to east and west, which also wrap around the southern end of the Cape of Good Hope. If an explorer did make it through the desert he would encounter some of the world's thickest jungles in the Congo region, if he ventured south down the Nile river he would find the waters become increasingly more treacherous until they become almost impossible to naviga
Even still the European crowns kept sponsoring voyages. But the sea route would have to wait on technology. This partitioning of Africa created a strong nationalism push. Finally a triangular sail that allowed ships to sail into the wind was invented and the race was on. This also helped keep southern Africa isolated for a while because for any European power to pass through the land route or northern Africa meant to pass through and area controlled by and inhabited by the Muslim empires, who were always at war and at odds the Christian European empires. Crews often came back with less than a third of the men still alive. slavery and forced labor) naturally gave birth to a want for independence and a want for national identity that is still present today in Africa despite their independent status. This left only one other route to southern Africa and all her valuable resources: the sea. They had already established trade routes and spread Islamic faith through some of the northern areas of Africa also. But even this was more daunting a task than originally thought. In places like Kenya and South Africa, signs of European imperialism, industrialism, and exploitation are still present amongst the poverty. Britain obtained colonies in Cape Town, Nigeria, the Gold Coast, and others.
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