Which European/White country was the most devastating/detrimental for Africa?

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depends on how you gauge detrimental. Some were in there for a short time or a small area but packed a bigger punch e.g. Belgium, or Italy, but there overall legacy may have been limited.

i would probably go for Belgium and King Leopold
Wasn't Italy one of the better ones?. My Eritrean buddy keeps telling me how the Italians helped them build their city and infrastructure like Asmara and even gave them a little help in defeating Ethiopia and gaining their independence?
 

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Italy the base of Western-Latin Rome and the disseminator of the ideology of Europe via the Vatican\Holy See which is an institution for the preservation and propagation of Latin-Roman culture.
 
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Wasn't Italy one of the better ones?. My Eritrean buddy keeps telling me how the Italians helped them build their city and infrastructure like Asmara and even gave them a little help in defeating Ethiopia and gaining their independence?
italy used chemical weapons on them so no. killed like 100k of them with mustard gas, slightly more than assad's 75 or so with sarin gas.
 
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Germany.. they rarely teach or speak about about the Herero and Nama genocide of Namibia.

''In January 1904, the Herero people, led by Samuel Maharero and Nama Captain Hendrik Witbooi, rebelled against German colonial rule. In August, German General Lothar von Trotha defeated the Herero in the Battle of Waterberg and drove them into the desert of Omaheke, where most of them died of dehydration. In October, the Nama people also rebelled against the Germans, only to suffer a similar fate.

Between 24,000 and 100,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama died. The first phase of the genocide was characterized by widespread death from starvation and dehydration due to the prevention of the retreating Herero from leaving the Namib Desert by German forces. Once defeated, thousands of Herero and Nama were imprisoned in concentration camps, where the majority died of disease, abuse, and exhaustion.''

Cacs been going into native lands and exterminating people since before the history books were made. :francis: And catch this:

In 2004, the German government recognized and apologized for the events, but ruled out financial compensation for the victims' descendants. In July 2015, the German government and the speaker of the Bundestag officially called the events a "genocide" and "part of a race war". However it has refused to consider reparations.

They literally only said ''sorry'' for a damn genocide.
you beat me to it.
each african country that was a colony will give you a different name though.
as a namibian and half nama, i obviously will say the germans.
 

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Reading about my ancestry, it looks like GB, France, and Portugal for starting the business.
 

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All of them, but my bias leans towards to France. Truly a nation of devils. But at pure face value it's not even really a bias of mine. It's just fact...

The fact that Francafrique is a real term is all you need to know...


But it's all the same to me. what the Portugese and Belgians did is on the same level to me as the what the French and Brits committed.

All cacs at the end of the day.
 

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I wanna say Belgium based off them suspected murder counts Leopold racked up. But wasn't France still collecting checks from African countries up until a few years ago? And fukk the UK too. fukk all of em.
 
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