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Long after the mass graves had been transformed into cotton and sugar farms, long after the good Christians had rediscovered their consciences and abandoned their colonial holdings… The indigenous victims had no recourse; they were effectively politically invisible: sovereign nations, they were permitted no sovereignty; landed peoples, they were left no lands. Cultures were shorn of their cultural value; ancient artistic, organizational, and medicinal wisdoms, deemed barbaric superstition, were left to wither and die… Without histories, the populations were “primitives”; without culture, they were “savages.” No voice was raised in defense of these peoples, no humanitarian appeal was sounded, as “civilization” swept through their ancestral lands and massacred their populations, usurping their bodies, their territories, their histories, and their pride. This global bloodletting composed more than mass murder, more than multiple genocides. It composed an assault upon humanity, a vast raid on the human world.
Hamblet, Wendy C.; Hamblet, Wendy C.. Savage Constructions: The Myth of African Savagery (pp. 2-3). Lexington Books. Kindle Edition.
In this work, I concentrate my attention upon the continent of Africa, one of the areas of the world worst hit by, and still suffering from, the multifold effects of imperialist violence, masked behind a rhetoric of “civilization” of the world’s “savages.” The taming of the “dark continent” was deemed a work of karitas by the Christian invaders, just as the Muslim invaders of earlier centuries had seen themselves in the service of their god as they slaughtered and enslaved their path across northern Africa.
Hamblet, Wendy C.; Hamblet, Wendy C.. Savage Constructions: The Myth of African Savagery (p. 3). Lexington Books. Kindle Edition.
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I believe it also, we must come together as African people…
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