It is (the Africans] who carry the 'Black man's burden'. They have not
withered away before the white man's occupation. Indeed ... Africa has
ultimately absorbed within itself every Caucasian and, for that matter,
every Semitic invader, too. In hewing out for himself a fixed abode in
Africa, the white man has massacred the African in heaps. The African
has survived what the mapping out of European political spheres of
influence' has failed to do; what the Maxim and the rifle, the slave
gang, labour in the bowels of the earth and the lash, have failed to do;
what imported measles, smallpox and syphilis have failed to do... what
the African Slave trade had failed to do, the power of modern
capitalistic exploitation, assisted by modern engines of destruction,
may yet succeed in accomplishing. For from the evils of the latter,
scientifically applied and enforced, there is no escape for the
AfricanIn its permanence resides its fatal consequences. It kills not
the body merely, but the soul. It breaks the spirit. It attacks the African
at every turn, from every point of vantage. It wrecks his polity, uproots
him from the land- Edward Morel, the Black Man's Burden, 1903

5. Analyze the passage and explain the intended audience and the
purpose of the document.