1. Book Analysis - The Road
With the decline of the Amerindian population, labor from Africa formed the basis of the exploitation of the gold and agricultural resources of the export sectors of the Americas, with sugar plantations absorbing well over two thirds of slaves carried across the Atlantic by the major European and Euro-American powers. ... The short answer to the first of these two questions is that European expansion to the Americas was to mainly tropical and semi-tropical areas. ... African capacity to resist Europeans ensured that sugar plantations were established in the Americas rather than in Africa. ......
Even after the de-colonization of Africa, the boundaries of the newly born states drawn with no regard to tribal lands and the European and American companies that own the majority of Africa's most resourceful land, are reminders that a form of imperialism still exists. ... The same idea of de-humanization of the Africans is present throughout Heart of Darkness as well, where the natives of the Congo are repeatedly called "savages." ... A good example of this is the Ogoni tribe in Nigeria whose lands were taken and exploited by American and Scandinavian oil companies. About two thirds o...