Gunboat Criminology in the History of People of African Descent

Gunboat criminology discusses how the oppressive and exploitative nature of European colonial and control policies permeated and corroded the African cultural, political, and socio-economic space, resulting in stunted growth and under development of Africa. Gunboat criminology has thus been used to characterize this organized usurpation and truncated relationship between the precolonial European interlopers and the Indigenous Africans dating back to 1884. Second, this author wishes to establish the obvious linkages between the European slave trade, the Industrial Revolution, social control, political subjugation, and the economic exploitation of Africa. The academic tragedy, Onyeozili argues, is the hypocrisy of European authors and historians, who have persistently refused to give recognition to the contribution of Africa to the wheels of the Industrial Revolution and the subsequent technological advancement of the West. An attempt is made to establish a linkage between the Industrial Revolution and the European slave trade

African descent · Criminology · Genealogy · Geography · Sociology · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · History