The colonization of Africa has been just as detrimental, if not more, than the slave trade was. At least the descendents of those stolen from Africa are supposedly given equal opportunities in America, the descendants of those first colonized in Africa are still repressed. Some European countries still have colonial holds in Africa. Even in places where the colonial powers have been removed the people will never be able to return to their original way of life, there has been too much damage already done.

 It is hard to imagine why Busch Gardens would want to bring up this ugly fact, let alone promote it. They definitely do not make an attempt to put African colonization in the negative light it deserves to be depicted in. Actually the Crown Colony House is one of the biggest and most well kept buildings in the park. This is an aspect of African life that Busch Gardens should perhaps reconsider portraying. Or at least have information available about what the effects of the Crown Colony Houses across Africa actually were. Then again, something has to be able to compete with the plantation home aesthetics of Main Street USA, in the land of the mouse.