African Culture Quotes
1st Earl of Beaconsfield. The Dutch and British landed at Capetown, the Southern tip of Africa and gradually expanded North. The Zulus were equally expansionist in Africa. They started from Central Africa and expanded South. Both these expansionist powers seized the land from the indigenous Blacks. It was a race for who could dominate the land first. Eventually, these two powers ran into each other and there were two Zulu-English wars in which the Zulus not only held their own against the dominant white world power, but defeated them in several major battles. Many of the English clergy admired the Zulus, and the major political issues in Europe had to do with what was called the “Scramble or Africa”.
Although Mogadishu was Muslim, Blacks were in total control and not Arabs.
American socialists and communists were very vocal about the terrible racial discrimination that existed in the United States until the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts were passed in the 1960s. In 1933 describing Black African societies as anything but primitive was rare regardless of the historical facts. When communists and socialists too these anti-racist positions, the racist Southerners then conflated this position and accused all opponents of segregation of being socialists and communists. This tactic actually worked quite well and for many years discouraged many politicians or others from speaking out against discrimination lest they be accused of being a communist or socialist.
