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Do you know what it feels like for a foreign power to come into your homeland, and start to control your day-to-day life? In modern times like today, most people are not experiencing this. Starting the late 1800’s, natives of Africa, India and Asia felt trapped because forces such as Britain controlled their land. This policy of a foreign power extending its hegemony over an underdeveloped area for economic, political, and social reasons is referred to as imperialism. Because of imperialism, natives are forced or decide to change their ways. This idea is portrayed in Things Fall Apart, written by Chebe. A significant character Nowye converted over to Christianity because he agreed with the core beliefs. He created a sense of belonging with the other converts, missionaries, and the Christian God. Another example is how Okonkwo, the main character, fights against the British forces that were invading his land. He did not want to appear inferior to them and he wanted to be the leader, thus he attempted to drive them out. Those examples go to show that imperialism had negative and positive affects on the victim countries.

I bet most of you are wondering…What can we do to prevent or stop imperialism around the world? The answer to that is quite simple- to get organized. What I mean by that is to raise funds, organize military forces against it, and establish a group determined people. There are already many present and past groups such as International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement and The Anti-Imperialist Committee of Correspondence that have been working or worked on stopping imperialism. In addition, we need to educate the younger generations about the negative effects, so that they do not get a crazy idea to imperialize. If we can abolish all foreign control, countries will be able to lead independently. That will make the world a better place!