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"If we are to answer the call for healing
dustries. All these have their values for the
that comes from Africa there must be re-
individuals involved.
construction of these elements
There is
But the basic purpose of colonization in
full ground for hope that the healing for
Africa (or elsewhere) is not the good of
MOROCCOO
000
ALGERIA
Africa may be found. It is in the Gospel of
the people, but the enriching of the
7,234,000
Jesus Christ. It is in that Gospel that the
"mother countries" or powerful interests in
fears of the African can be overcome. It is
LIBYA
the European nations. Any good that comes
EGYPT
RIO DEL ORO
888,000
in the kind of life that Jesus gives that the
to the African is generally incidental.
15,920,000
threatened values of African cultural life
In no other place in the world is so much
(ITALIAN)
(INDEPENDENT)
can be found again on a higher level."
labor to be had at SO low a wage as in
FRENCH WEST
The challenge to the Christian mission-
Africa. And it is that wealth of mineral
ERITREA
AFRICA
ary-to every Christian-is to help prepare
600,000
resources and potential wealth of agricul-
14,944,000
FRENCH
ANGLO EGYPTIAN
(ITALIAN)
the African for this new life; to prepare the
tural resources, plus almost unlimited cheap
EQUATORIAL
SUDAN
African and to prepare the white man so
labor to work mines and fields that make
BRITISH
that this vast continent does not become a
AFRICA
Africa the happy hunting-ground of Euro-
6,342,000
SOMALILAND
breeding place for a third world war. Con-
pean nations and industrialists after more
3,423,000
345,000
(BRITISH)
trol of the continent was one of the causes
raw materials, more wealth, more labor that
NIGERIA
of the conflict just ended.
is unorganized and unprotected-labor that
SEIRRA
21,040,000
ETHIOPIA
.EONE
(BRITISH)
12,100,000
A Continent of Colonies
need not be given union wages, or unem-
72,000
(INDEPENDENT)
ployment security or old-age pensions.
BRITISH)
PRENCHI
000
There is another, and equally ominous, and
Let it be remembered that it was the
KENYA
ITALIAN
1,300.
still-to-be-decided aspect of the African
Christian missionary who first roused the
LIBERIA
question that now seriously affects the life
1,500,000
GOLD COAST
world to an abhorrence of the slave trade;
(INO)
COLONY
BELGIAN
BR.
COLONY
of the people of the continent and the whole
3,825,000
and it is the Christian missionary, and
CONGO
3,534,000
future of Christian work there. It is the
groups he has gathered about him, who pro-
3,962,000
10,383,000
BR.
whole system and theory of colonization of
test the robbing of the land from the African,
(BRITISH)
TANGANYIKA
Africa by European nations.
the exploitation of his wealth and his person,
5,231,000
Look at the political map of Africa (page
and the continuance of the so-called colonial
AFRICA
(BRITISH)
8). Only three small countries-Egypt,
system as a means of further exploitation
Ethiopia, and Liberia-are more or less in-
and control.
ANGOLA
SHOWING
dependent of some foreign power. European
Just what the future of coloniès-in
3,543,000
nations control 92% of the vast continental
Africa and elsewhere-is to be under new
TERRITORY OWNERSHIP
RHODESIA 1,448,000 BR. so. RHODESIA: EAST 000
area. Most of the African governments are
AND POPULATION
(PORTUGUESE)
NORTHERN
world proposals is not clear. But there is a
1,381,000.
controlled as "colonies." Germany had col-
growing Christian conscience that colonies
BR.
onies before World War I; England, France,
must eventually be prepared for and given
SOUTH
Belgium now hold them.
7
self-government; that meanwhile they must
WEST
Let us admit that the system of coloniza-
AFRICA
be administered (probably under interna-
tion by Europeans brings some benefits to
314,000
BR,
tional regulation or inspection) for the wel-
the people of Africa. It may give them a
fare of the inhabitants rather than for the
government that puts down inter-tribal war
UNIONAFRICA SOUTH
aggrandizement of the controlling nation.
and some of the worse aspects of native life
That process of democracy and justice is
-it wipes out cannibalism, for example. It
necessary if the world wants permanent
gives peace, organizes sometimes the eco-
peace. To some nations it may entail sacri-
nomic life, puts the people in some touch
fice of questionable "rights."
with civilized behavior, and even may intro-
duce certain creature comforts, or good
The Church's Task
roads, or opportunity for a cash market for
The great task in Africa of the Christian
their products, or new crops, or new in-
church-as a maker of that peace-is to
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