2022년 4월 29일 금요일

Africa after the Berlin Conference in 1878 and David Livingston

 David Livingston was an explorer who spread Christianity, commerce, and civilization in Africa. On March 14, 1841, a 28-year-old young man, Livingston, took his first steps in Cape Town, the end of South Africa. He, who advocated abolition of slavery, believed that he could pave the way to Africa, spread civilization, and eliminate slavery through African people and legal commerce. In 1844, he found the Jame River beyond the Kalahari Desert despite being bitten by a lion, and in 1856 he returned to England and published his travel records in a book in a modest style. In 1858, he and his wife led an expedition back to eastern Africa. Despite thorough preparations, however, the Livingston expedition wandered many times in the jungle, causing constant discord among its colleagues. In addition, his wife fell ill and died. The British government ordered an immediate return, but Livingston sent only the crew and went into the jungle alone. In 1866, Livingston was going north to find the source of the Nile. His health deteriorated badly after a long expedition. However, this time, the natives attacked him and lost all his food, supplies, and medicine, and even the people who followed him fled leaving Livingston behind. The fugitives falsely reported Livingston dead. Five years later, Stanley, a correspondent for the New York Herald, was wandering in the thick jungle of Uziji in Africa. When I heard a human moan somewhere in the jungle, an elderly man who was so skinny that I couldn't open my eyes with fever fell down. At that moment, Stanley remembered Livingston, who had died in the jungle many years ago, and asked carefully. "Isn't that Dr. Livingston?" the old man nodded. Livingston, who recovered from Stanley's thorough care, refused Stanley's request to return to his home country together and went on a trip again. Two years later, Livingston was found dead in Zambia. He was kneeling in a position that seemed to pray for something. Later, in 1878, the Berlin Conference of German Powers was held, and the African flag-raising competition started from Dambu... ...Livingston and Stanley, not Stanley, but Livingston, as a good expedition, was a tool of invasion by the European powers. After the 16th century, Africa was caught by Westerners, cooperated with black settlers, pulled tens of millions of slaves into the Americas... ...the famous mud city of Timbuktu was also a pile of soil. But when we got the information from Livingston and Stanley, we started to... ...and even before the 20th century, Africa had become a mess. But do you know where Westerners arrived last? Inland Africa and Joseon in the late 19th century. England, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain, and Portugal take over a lot. The German ones are divided between England and France after World War I. Ethiopia and Liberia are the only two independent countries on the continent. Liberia was founded in the 19th century by American liberation slaves who returned to Africa. Carrot. The protectorate of the United States. Ethiopia was also invaded by Mussolini in Italy in 1935. But what's great about Ethiopia is that in 1896 when it's long divided into the low-life era, it defeats the invasion of Italy at the Battle of Addo. The Italians are really a disgrace to modern Europe, Mussolini retaliated. But at least they were defeated by the British in 1942. Conquering very briefly... ...all colonial independence except the Portuguese colonies on the occasion of the 1960 African Year. Portugal held out in Angola and Mozambique until 1975 and eventually lost. South Africa is independent after World War II but still white. So did neighboring Rhodesia, but eventually white people are defeated and turned into Zimbabwe. In the 1990s, a black regime emerged in South Africa.




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