The main goal of imperialists in africa was

Making the world better, one answer at a time. The main goal of imperialists in Africa was to control more territory without going to war.

The main goal of imperialists was to enrich the home countries. They would colonize Africa and use the colonists as cheap labor force, often as slaves, and would produce things that were cheaper and would take all of their resources and sell them or manufacture things from them. This would bring wealth to the colonizer but no wealth to the colony itself.