THE IMPACT OF WORLD WAR II ON THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF AFRICAN NATIONALISM
In 1939 Germany attacked Poland in order to expand her territories. This sparked off World War II which spread all over the whole world including Africa. It was an international war fought between the axis powers (Germany, Italy and Japan) on one side and the allied powers (Britain, France, USA and USSR) on the other side. Africans were recruited by their colonial masters as drivers, cooks and gunmen. It should be noted that this war inspired political consciousness of Africans and it became a true turning point in the history of Africa for it contributed to the rise and growth of African nationalism in various ways as follows:- The recruitment of African soldiers and the return of Ex-servicemen, destroyed the white man’s superiority as the ex-servicemen got a chance to see the white man at home and realized that a part from color difference he was a human being just like the African and had human problems like poverty, death among others. They also found out that some of them (whites)...