How do you think Africa - and in particular Kenya - would have developed if imperialism had not taken place? What would be different today? Do you consider imperialism a rather bad or rather good event in your nation's history?
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I believe Africa would still have developed even if the white man had not come. And I think our country has shown a very fast development although we have been exploited a lot. We might still be a developing nation, but we are getting there - step by step.
I think this question is (sorry to say so) kind of stupid. We will never know how Africa would have developed if colonialism hadn't taken place. So, why even pose the question? There is no answer.
All we know is that Africa has had to develop much faster than your countries in Europe. Within a century our trading system was transformed into a money economy, cities have become bigger and many people migrated into them leaving empty fields behind, many people have forgotten about their ancestral roots and beliefs, our values have changed,...
Considering that we had to adapt to so many changes, I don't think we did a bad job. Sure, some things still have to be improved, but, you know, it also took Europe centuries to become what is has become, why shouldn't we use some more time for improvement?!
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