African farmers displaced as inventors move in. Some Africans that lived in this small farm (more like a village) were removed by half a dozen strangers that came along and took over the farm. Libya's leader, Muammar El-Qaddafi, had took control and power this village and claimed it his. All the farmers had to leave. One of the farmers said "They told us this would be the last rainy season for us to cultivate our fields; after that, they will level all the houses and take the land". Africans were stunned about what had just happened, they clearly understood that the government typically had owned their land and had been leasing it to private investors and foreign governments for decades to come. All the government did was take the crops that had been growing for a while and he sold them. So basically the farmers all what they were getting was money from the government, and the government was getting all the money and using for "taxes".
I think the way it relates as imperialism is that the way that the government took over the villagers land. And some leader came to the land and claimed it his. Like for example, from the perspectives of the colonizers, Europeans thought that Africans were unable to handle running their own countries so they had taken over. The only thing that was different the perspective of the colonized because the farmers here were shocked of this happening and back then some farmers liked foreign control. But some really disliked foreign control and rebelled against foreigners. The way that this hasn't changed was that the government has always been selling and leasing the land to other foreign countries. There has always been a trade between countries, so that's why leaders show up and take over the lands the people working there have no other choice then to leave.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/22/world/africa/22mali.html?_r=1&ref=africa
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