Q3 Blog #14- alternate X.C. assignment

For this blog my group has decided to do the alternate assignment which is to blog about our topic. Before I must express my disappointment about not getting to blog about this weeks normal topic which was love. Only because I thought I had a good idea. I was going to blog about a song thus making music a new form of "text" to be blogged about. Unfortunately I could not do this early because not many songs I have heard relate to things like colonization and gender roles. Anyway oh well I guess I wait until the next good topic. However for this blog I will write about the article "The Scramble for Africa" that Sam posted on his blog. Africa was the most largely colonized continent in the world. It went from only a couple of its countries being under foreign control to all but two. Ethiopia was free because they succeeded in fighting off the Italians, and Libya was free because of its ties to the U.S. Today none of the european powers hold any of these colonies. Unfortuanately the effects of the european colonies is still felt today. The poorly drawn european borders have plunged the continent into war and violence. It also didn't help that the europeans took much of Africa's natural resources and exported them. It turns out that none of the African colonies ended up being profitable because of the money the europeans had to spend for keeping order and fighting revolutions.

klein, sam. "scramble for africa." wikipedia. 16 feb 2009. wikipedia. 17 Mar 2009 .