Question

African tribes and countries have interacted with other continents over millennia. The interaction with Europe during pre-colonial times may have resulted in a permanent transformation of political, economic and social life. This thesis has proponents and opponents, however. Please give some arguments for and against a transformation.

Answer 1

When we get ourselves concerned with interactions of two different races of humankind, we are talking of huge Political, Economic and Social transformations. All these has a lot of positives and negatives imbibed in themselves. A few of which are mentioned below:

Euroean civilisation is considered to be one of the most advanced in the world. Hence, the African tribes definitely could adopt a lot of positives ofut of them. The Europeans have always been very rich, literally. Hence, interactions would have helped the African Nationals to develop a rich view on literature. Their Warfare techniques, Political beliefs and the way of improving and maintaining a certain standard of living is a glorious examlification of what the Africans could have inculcated from them.

However, the indigenous cultures and traditions of the tribes get brutally hampered out of such interactions. In a simpe example, there has been a growing tendency amongst the eastern nations of the world to mimic the actions of the west. And in this process they end up belonging to nowhere. They are neithern Western nor they remain eastern anymore. Similar fate could have been experienced by the african tribes as well.