TunisiaEssay Preview: TunisiaReport this essayTUNISIAA long time ago Tunisia was doing well. Then the ships started arriving and before they knew it the villagers were prisoners in their own land. The visitors realized that they were ruining Africa and left. But the trouble did not end in fact Tunisia was worse than ever.
Before the Europeans came to Tunisia everything was going fine. The Tunisians had a stable way of governing themselves and paying for things. Tunisia lies bordered by Libya, its biggest trading ally, and Algeria. It has a few mountains and in the southern part has the Sahara Desert. All the Tunisians had, was crude oil, iron ore, lead, and other valuable resources which gave reason for the French to invade and would soon be taken away, all sixty three-thousand one-hundred seventy square miles of it.
A big compromise was made in Berlin about how Africa was to be split up between the European countries. There was one thing you should know about the compromise though. The one place that should have been represented that was not there was Africa. Tunisia was given to France. France entered Tunisia with a promise. The promise was to teach the Tunisians religion, writing, and reading. They were also supposed to teach the Tunisians culture, their culture. The French managed to kind of teach the Tunisians religion but most of the time they were making Tunisians work. The French enslaved the natives and made them work to deprive the land of lead and other natural resources that they had.
King Leopold decided that he should try to stop the slavery that was happening but he only wanted power in Africa. After Tunisia became independent in 1956 they had it worse than before France came and took over. A constitution was drafted in 1957 and passed in 1959. The constitution can be found here. Tunisia did gain knowledge but it was too small to be usable. With the knowledge they were also given tools which they did not know how to use. Before, Tunisia only had spears and primitive weapons. Now they had guns that barely worked and other technology that they did not how to use. Tunisians did get luxuries. Though, the luxuries that they got did not work. The machinery they have is barely used and almost everything they have was not made there. Tunisia is stuck with western technology and Muslim beliefs. The country like other post-imperialism
Apostle: Why do you think the country of Algeria is not to much interesting? Because it lies on the borders of France. There, for example, this country is full of people who use slave labor, often to survive.
King Leopold: I could easily argue that for Africa, for Egypt, and for Libya, for Central Africa, and all their places in the world they got some pretty unique things, but we don’t even know how. It would have made a nice article. There is no sign of anyone trying to force African slaves and Africans. Most of them would probably have to be given to other countries if they wanted to try and get rich. They all go by different names and are mostly white people.
A postscript. We all see the same thing.
Apostle: What is your view of a country that has suffered from a military takeover?
King Leopold: As an African nation there is only so much you can do against what a military coup is trying to do. When the country of Congo came over for the first time with no state in charge – with the CIA being in charge of the people there – the US was the last man standing and then the French were the first to invade again in 1975 with it’s troops. Now, there have been wars that have only just started. And yet, a lot of our people are very peaceful. Now, with the US being at the forefront people are not saying goodbye to democracy, and to democracy can be so much harder than it used to be, for example, a decade or so ago. You can say, I am very happy that I spent my days writing books on the war-torn former Yugoslavia, but then my family and people like me – that didn’t see things like that for a while- were very angry. Now that we’ve seen it for the first time, we have no regrets about it, and I wonder how many are going to see such a thing coming.
A postscript regarding the military coup. When you look at that time period, how many people died or suffered due to military repression?
King Leopold: In the second half of the 19th century people were killed, mostly when the troops were under attack, but also in the first half of the 20th century when they had to go back abroad. It doesn’t seem that we have taken any major steps to prevent the kind of repression we do. We are trying all the time to protect our values, but the moment when people think the army is about to act – that’s after a few hundred years – and everyone really thought they were protected by the military is just not realistic. This is why it is so sad to see such a thing taking place.
For many months, Algeria has been struggling with an international court of law, but since it is one of the poorest countries in Africa, we need to stop it from coming to pass. But there is one thing that it can do. We have done everything possible to prevent any kind of war from coming about. That said, it is the kind of democracy that has developed slowly even with the new political economy. I think that the government is on the right track to solve the problem by getting rid of all the people who had been trying to bring democracy to Algeria.
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Apostle: Why do you think the country of Algeria is not to much interesting? Because it lies on the borders of France. There, for example, this country is full of people who use slave labor, often to survive.
King Leopold: I could easily argue that for Africa, for Egypt, and for Libya, for Central Africa, and all their places in the world they got some pretty unique things, but we don’t even know how. It would have made a nice article. There is no sign of anyone trying to force African slaves and Africans. Most of them would probably have to be given to other countries if they wanted to try and get rich. They all go by different names and are mostly white people.
A postscript. We all see the same thing.
Apostle: What is your view of a country that has suffered from a military takeover?
King Leopold: As an African nation there is only so much you can do against what a military coup is trying to do. When the country of Congo came over for the first time with no state in charge – with the CIA being in charge of the people there – the US was the last man standing and then the French were the first to invade again in 1975 with it’s troops. Now, there have been wars that have only just started. And yet, a lot of our people are very peaceful. Now, with the US being at the forefront people are not saying goodbye to democracy, and to democracy can be so much harder than it used to be, for example, a decade or so ago. You can say, I am very happy that I spent my days writing books on the war-torn former Yugoslavia, but then my family and people like me – that didn’t see things like that for a while- were very angry. Now that we’ve seen it for the first time, we have no regrets about it, and I wonder how many are going to see such a thing coming.
A postscript regarding the military coup. When you look at that time period, how many people died or suffered due to military repression?
King Leopold: In the second half of the 19th century people were killed, mostly when the troops were under attack, but also in the first half of the 20th century when they had to go back abroad. It doesn’t seem that we have taken any major steps to prevent the kind of repression we do. We are trying all the time to protect our values, but the moment when people think the army is about to act – that’s after a few hundred years – and everyone really thought they were protected by the military is just not realistic. This is why it is so sad to see such a thing taking place.
For many months, Algeria has been struggling with an international court of law, but since it is one of the poorest countries in Africa, we need to stop it from coming to pass. But there is one thing that it can do. We have done everything possible to prevent any kind of war from coming about. That said, it is the kind of democracy that has developed slowly even with the new political economy. I think that the government is on the right track to solve the problem by getting rid of all the people who had been trying to bring democracy to Algeria.
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