The most important legacy left behind by the imperial powers was the lack of freedom or independence of the Indigenous people. The Indians, according to Dadabhai, were not necessarily oppressed, however their wants and needs were never considered. The freedom of being able to think and supply for themselves were taken away from the Indians and replaced with an extreme dependency on the British. This restricted the Indians to the point that they could only relieved as far as the British loans would allow, which is not much. As for the Tibet people, they faced extreme genocide with the survival of their people at extreme risk. Their freedom was taken away from them as they are always under attack and oppressed. In the Africans’ case, Africans on a whole were “forced to grow according to the whims and preferences of their colonial masters.” They couldn’t do anything for themselves, everything had to be tailored to their colonial masters’ wants. …show more content…
Although each cartoon is conveying the Scramble for Africa, each one has its own way of portraying it. For instance, the first cartoon uses a land mass labeled “Africa” and people, each representing a different country, tugging on it to represent the Scramble for Africa. The artist captures the countries vying for control over Africa and the Scramble for Africa in its essence. The second political cartoon shows an African man on a plantation of sorts, most likely a rubber plantation, being strangled by the coils of a snake. With a crown and a snow white beard, the snake looks strikingly like the King of