Colonisation Archives - Consciousness.co.za Magazine https://consciousness.co.za/tag/colonisation/ Arts and African History Thu, 02 May 2024 18:47:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 The problem of Afrikan politics and the danger of white politics in South Africa https://consciousness.co.za/the-problem-of-afrikan-politics-and-the-danger-of-white-politics-in-south-africa/ https://consciousness.co.za/the-problem-of-afrikan-politics-and-the-danger-of-white-politics-in-south-africa/#respond Thu, 28 Mar 2024 18:46:40 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=15010 One of the significant benefits of an Afrikan-centred study of European thought and behaviour is the fundamental discovery that “politics is the continuation of war by other means”. Politics in essence is about power. While elections are a function of a representative democracy, they are not the core of power. Elections are a mere aspect [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/the-problem-of-afrikan-politics-and-the-danger-of-white-politics-in-south-africa/feed/ 0 1885 Berlin Conference – How European leaders carved up Africa for colonisation https://consciousness.co.za/1885-berlin-conference-how-european-leaders-carved-up-africa-for-colonisation/ https://consciousness.co.za/1885-berlin-conference-how-european-leaders-carved-up-africa-for-colonisation/#respond Sat, 28 Feb 2015 10:23:32 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=8987 Source: http://www.dw.de In 1885 European leaders met at the infamous Berlin Conference to divide Africa and arbitrarily draw up borders that exist to this day. The map on the wall in the Reich Chancellery in Berlin was five meters (16.4 feet) tall. It showed Africa with rivers, lakes, a few place names and many white [...]

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]]> https://consciousness.co.za/1885-berlin-conference-how-european-leaders-carved-up-africa-for-colonisation/feed/ 0 Human zoos https://consciousness.co.za/human-zoos-also-called-ethnological-expositions-or-negro-villages/ https://consciousness.co.za/human-zoos-also-called-ethnological-expositions-or-negro-villages/#respond Sun, 12 Jan 2014 15:35:08 +0000 https://consciousness.co.za/?p=6305 source: Wikipedia (http://wikipedia.org) Human zoos (also called ethnological expositions or Negro Villages) were 19th- and 20th-century public exhibits of humans, usually in a so-called natural or primitive state. The displays often emphasized the cultural differences between Europeans of Western civilization and non-European peoples. Ethnographic zoos were often predicated on unilinealism, scientific racism and social Darwinism. [...]

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