It is not enough to know the impact of colonial education on the cultural life of Africans without first of all getting to know the essence of colonialism and what was the cultural life of the Africans like vis-à-vis their stage of development before the incursion of imperialism.
Colonialism, as we know is the transfer of capitalist bankruptcy abroad through the need for markets and raw materials for commercial capitalism, more so of pressure for external fields of investment. Thus, what was called ‘International Trade’ was nothing but the extension overseas of Europeans’ chauvinistic interests. J.A.
Hobson said,
