Africa suffered for centuries from European imperialist countries invading for its natural resources. Even before that, the slave trade robbed the continent of its people and led to the fall of its great empires. Later, in the 20th century, Africa was trapped in the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union. Both of their influence was for their own political gains, propping up brutal dictatorships all in the name of stability. Even …showed first 75 words of 445 total…

…showed last 75 words of 445 total…of the Great Trek when the Boers tried to escape to the North in the meantime fighting with the African groups who were protecting their own land. With the debt inherited from the past, and the "corporate" colonization still continuing resources and the diminishing amount of free land, civil wars come and go. Native Africans keep trying to overthrow imperialist governments hoping to gain political and economic independence and to restore their own cultural inheritance.