Development of African Civilization

Mazrui (1986) described a tripartite African heritage. The continent has an indigenous heritage, a Semitic heritage, and a western heritage (Mazrui, 1986). Mazrui (1986) does not necessarily regard the Semetic heritage as external in character, because he contends that defining the Middle East home of the Semites as a part of Asia, as opposed to including it as a part of Africa, was an arbitrary European action, which was based upon European imperatives and perspectives, without regard for African considerations. Thus, according to Mazrui (1986), although both Judaism and Islam have influenced the development of African civilization, their influences have been neither as alien nor as destructive to indigenous social, political, and economic structures as have western influences.

Western actions in Africa have been both pervasive and destructive in Africa (BoamahWaife, 1988). Although the

effects on African civilization of western actions have tended to vary according to the unique circumstances of each African country, the general nature of the effects have been similar all across the continent (Mazrui, 1986). For this reason, in this research, the effects of western actions on African civilization are examined in th

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agriclutural policy developed for German SouthWest Africa was based on the needs and objectives of immigrants 6the white settler farmers (Sorrenson, 1967). In this system, the Namibian peoples were regarded only as a necessary labor force. A part of this Germanoriented agricultural policy provided for significant and planned increases in the numbers of white settlers to be brought to Namibia. An important characteristic of the development of Namibian agriculture during the colonial period was the restriction placed on the development and expansion of nonsettler agriculture. Although the fruition of prosettler agricultural policies required a long period of development, eventually the Namibians were restricted to reserves when farming on their own. Off the native reserves, they worked in agriculture only as laborers for the settler farmers. Even the ownership of the reserve lands lay with the colonial governmentnot with the Namibian peoples. Thus, native Namibians became tenant farmers even on those lands reserved for their use. The colonial development of Namibian agriculture was characterized by four salient features. The first was a strong precedence given to the immigrant white s
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