This research explores the development of African civili zation. Specifically, this exploration focuses on the effects on African civilization of external religious, political, and economic actions.
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 charac ter, 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, poli tical, and economic structures as have western influences.
Western actions in Africa have been both pervasive and destructive in Africa (Boamah Waife, 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 civil ization are examined in the contexts of two specific countries Namibia and Lesotho, as opposed to considering the effects within the context of a general brush of the entire continent.
The Social, Political, and Economic ______Destruction of Namibia_______
An unfortunate aspect of life in the western industrial ized countries is that knowledge of the histories of the peo ples of the developing parts of the world is all but non existent, unless such history, in some relevant way, may be tied to the economic ...