http://www.nl-aid.org/continent/sub-saharan-africa/the-new-scrambla-for-africa/ NL-Aid is a 'blog and news agency' about foreign aid, development cooperation, international politics in Africa, Asia and Latin America Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:06:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://www.nl-aid.org/continent/sub-saharan-africa/the-new-scrambla-for-africa/#comment-2937 Darwiniana » Colonialism/Social Darwinism Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:08:11 +0000 http://www.nl-aid.org/?p=5568#comment-2937 [...] http://www.nl-aid.org/continent/sub-saharan-africa/the-new-scrambla-for-africa/ There is a 21st-century version of “the scramble for Africa,” a continuation of what started in the 19th century (1880-1914) by the Europeans who pillaged the continent’s resources, systematically exploited its people, caused tribal and regional wars, destroying its culture; and all of it by invoking social Darwinism and other Eurocentric theories, including ethnocentrism and “Exceptionalism,” to justify white hegemony. [...] [...] http://www.nl-aid.org/continent/sub-saharan-africa/the-new-scrambla-for-africa/ There is a 21st-century version of “the scramble for Africa,” a continuation of what started in the 19th century (1880-1914) by the Europeans who pillaged the continent’s resources, systematically exploited its people, caused tribal and regional wars, destroying its culture; and all of it by invoking social Darwinism and other Eurocentric theories, including ethnocentrism and “Exceptionalism,” to justify white hegemony. [...]

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