This chapter was a very interesting one to me. I liked how he began the chapter with a personal experience in his life. he talked about how when he was traveling through Africa his bus broke down so he had to hitchhike from Kenya to Uganda. During that journey he learned a lot about the African culture that he didn't expect to hear. The African men weren't suppose to know english because the white men were scared the Africans would take their white women. The englishmen wanted nothing to do with interracial breeding or relationships.
Another big part of this chapter was about control over Africa and Africa's fight for independent nations. The French owned 6 nations in Africa; Algeria, Mauritania, West Africa, new Guinea, Sengal and Gambia. The British owned a whopping 11 states; Gold Coast, Nigeria, Egypt, Sudan, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya, Rhodesia, South Africa, ect. All the rest of the nations are owned by many other countries. Some such as Germany, Italy, Portugal, Belgium and Spain. Only Ethiopia and Liberia are
independent states in Africa.
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