Pros and Cons of Imperialism in Africa

Positive reasons for Europe invading Africa

• Civilizing Africans
  
• Protecting Africa militarily
  
• Uniting Africa under one language
• Boosting the economy
• Discovering new materials
• Introducing new medicines to Africans
  

Negative reasons for Europe invading Africa

• Killing millions of Africans
• Grouping feuding tribes into the same countries
• Slave trading
• Taking Africa's resources for their own benefit
• Treating Africans as less then human; as animals
• Converting Africans to other religions