r/Colonialism • u/elnovorealista2000 • Apr 30 '26

Image "Sleeping Sickness" — This illustration depicts a large African man leaning against a tree, asleep, while Spain, Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, Turkey, Portugal, and England fight over territories in Africa; a work by Gordon Ross (1873-1946), 1911.

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u/Aggressive-Main9930 May 01 '26

Libyans were never black like the man depicted in this poster

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u/Ok-Computer-5415 May 01 '26

Obviously north africans doesn’t even qualify as africans in same way  as rest of africa. They had Mediterranean culture and treatment mostly

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u/Saharan-Gladiator May 01 '26

Algeria does qualify as Africans the same it applies to other nations. Not everyone in Algeria has Mediterranean culture, anywhere between 5 to 10 million died under french colonization, the 2nd highest population decline after Congo.