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    Decolonization in Asia and Africa: Factors Led To Decolonization

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    Colonization led to major restructuring of colonial economies to exploit colonies' production of goods for European consumption. Decolonization in the 20th century was driven by several key factors: WWII bankrupted European colonial powers like Britain and France, while exposing African soldiers to ideas of independence; the rise of the US as an anti-colonial superpower increased pressure for self-determination; and educated African leaders organized independence movements as African populations grew larger than colonial administrations.

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    Colonization led to major restructuring of colonial economies to exploit colonies' production of goods for European consumption. Decolonization in the 20th century was driven by several key factors: WWII bankrupted European colonial powers like Britain and France, while exposing African soldiers to ideas of independence; the rise of the US as an anti-colonial superpower increased pressure for self-determination; and educated African leaders organized independence movements as African populations grew larger than colonial administrations.

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    Colonization led to major restructuring of colonial economies to exploit colonies' production of goods for European consumption. Decolonization in the 20th century was driven by several key factors: WWII bankrupted European colonial powers like Britain and France, while exposing African soldiers to ideas of independence; the rise of the US as an anti-colonial superpower increased pressure for self-determination; and educated African leaders organized independence movements as African populations grew larger than colonial administrations.

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    Decolonization in Asia and Africa

    One of the striking political and economic changes of the twentieth century
    was the almost complete elimination of colonial power. This has naturally
    precipitated a large debate about the legacy of colonialism for contemporary
    development experiences. To understand the legacy of colonialism, it is
    important to understand the forces that led to its rise and decline.In fact,
    colonization was normally followed by a major restructuring of colonial economies. Europeans were
    interested in exploiting the capacity of colonies to produce goods that could be consumed in Europe.

    Factors Led to Decolonization

    WWII was a major factor in the decolonization of Africa. Britain and France,
    the main colonial powers in Africa, were broke after WWII and simply could
    not afford to keep their colonies.

    America was turning into a superpower, while Britain was on the wane. The
    Americans had in office during WWII a decidedly anti-colonialist president in
    FDR, and his widow was among the leading voices calling for freedom and
    self-determination for all states after WWII. Churchill was confronted with
    several pointed questions in America - one was why Britain could fight to
    maintain the self-determination of European states while at the same time
    maintaining colonies in Africa and Asia.

    Africans were drafted in massive numbers into colonial armies in WWII.


    Many came back home from the war having interacted with other colonial
    soldiers from around the world, and having seen their erstwhile colonial
    masters defeated in battles, killed, etc. This removed, for many of them, the
    aura of invincibility that colonial authorities had carefully built over time in
    presenting themselves as superior to Africans and therefore entitled to be
    masters of the continent.
    Africa began producing a small group of well-educated leaders, many the
    beneficiaries of scholarships from the USA and the USSR. These leaders
    came home to Africa in the 1950s and immediately began agitating for
    independence, organizing African citizens into political movements and so
    on.

    Finally, independence was always going to happen because of


    demographics: the colonial elite and their soldiers were a tiny number in the
    face of massive numbers of Africans, and pressure was always going to build
    on them to leave and let the African people determine their own futures.

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