African History

 Identify causes for and impact of European imperialism in Africa.

 How do the climate and geography of Africa contribute to its peoples way of life?

 Exploration  Dias & DaGama: Discovery  ’s: Supply & trade  Mid 1800s: Renewed interest  Business Leaders – resources/markets  Missionaries – convert  Nationalists – empire building  Scramble for Africa  Medicine & Maxim gun  1884 Berlin Conference  Euro powers & US (no African)  Rules for colonization  Effectively occupied, defend & administer  African Resistance  Millions die weapons & disease  Ethiopia is exception The Scramble for African Colonies search

 How would you define European colonization of Africa?  Quick  Complete  Absolute  Exploitive

 Colonial Govt  Direct & indirect rule  New legal systems  Colonial Economics  Raw out/Finished in  Single cash crop  Money econ  Improvements  Transportation & communication  Hospitals & medicine  Water & sanitation systems  Education

 Pan-Africanism  Post WW1  “Africa for the Africans”  Leopold Senghor  Independence  Post WW2  Colonial powers weak  US & USSR anti-colonial  UN self-determination

 Use the reading to explain the following impacts of colonization on Africa.  Social & Cultural Disruption  Underdeveloped Human Potential  Weak Infrastructure & Resource Exploitation  Disoriented Trade Patterns  Colonial Boundaries  Negative Model of Colonial Govt  Ethnic Conflicts  Graft & Corruption  Poor Decision Making

 What do many African nations need to do in an effort to modernize or develop?  Political stability  Economic diversity & independence  Control population  Increase education  Improve services