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Diamonds, gold, and bauxite “Diamonds are a girl’s best friend” -Marilyn Monroe ◦ DeBeer’s Diamonds in Africa -”Diamonds are forever.”
"global African community” – immediate indy from France African Leader - Sekou Toure
Rather than have French right, total Indy (nonviolent) The departing French took everything—the telephones and electric-light sockets, typewriters, chairs, tables, even the government records—leaving Guinea (pop. 2,800,000) to start building a nation from scratch.
Resources: cocoa, petroleum, and natural gas 1957 – First African Nation to Declare Independence from a colonial (mother country) power Kwame Nkrumah – Socialist and Dictator
France and Algeria – Mother Country
Pan Arabism – identification of an Arab state for Arab people
Few Wars in the 1950s before Indy. in 1962 Ahmed Ben Bella – ◦ African Leader during Indy.
Tourist Destination Rich farmland
“You are the son of a terrorist …” =ITdPTKpGHuI
Algerians vs. French
Mother Country: BELGIUM!!!! -Only Country (scramble for Africa)
Western Investments: Copper, gold, tin, cobalt, diamonds, manganese, zinc
Look at the map, Explain to me some problems with the Congo being controlled by Belgium.
About the size of Maryland!!!! Riots Education??? Corruption
Patrice Lumumba – Indy Movement ◦ Killed By CIA – Communist ◦ Joseph Mobutu after (corrupt, but Anti-communist!) Renames the country Zaire
Why hold onto this piece of land -sig? ◦ tea, cocoa coffee, sugarcane, corn, wheat, rice, sisal, pineapples, dairy products, hides, skins
Mau Mau Movement –Nationalist Movement
Role of Nationalism: African leader of Kenya and Kikuyu People ◦ Jomo Kenyatta