Shawn Leigh Alexander
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813032320
- eISBN:
- 9780813039084
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813032320.003.0033
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This chapter presents the editorial on European colonization of Africa, “An African Empire,” where Fortune predicted the creation of an “African Empire,” an “African Confederation, not unlike that of ...
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This chapter presents the editorial on European colonization of Africa, “An African Empire,” where Fortune predicted the creation of an “African Empire,” an “African Confederation, not unlike that of Germany.” He argued that Europeans may have had their way on the continent for the time being, but “in the course of time, the people will become educated not only in the grasping and cruel nature of the white man, but in the knowledge of their power,...”Less
This chapter presents the editorial on European colonization of Africa, “An African Empire,” where Fortune predicted the creation of an “African Empire,” an “African Confederation, not unlike that of Germany.” He argued that Europeans may have had their way on the continent for the time being, but “in the course of time, the people will become educated not only in the grasping and cruel nature of the white man, but in the knowledge of their power,...”
