1. B.A. FINAL PAPER-B UNIT-1 CHAPTER-1 PARTITION OF AFRICA Dr. Harmeet Sethi

2. PARTITION OF AFRICA  Big Continent-Near Europe  Isolation for a long time-called ‘Dark Continent’  Backward-interest of European Powers  Division of Africa

3. AFRICA – A DARK CONTINENT  No Good Coast and Harbour  Lack of Means of Transport  Climate  No Fertile Land  Wild Animals and Poisonous Insects

4. CAUSES-PARTITION OF AFRICA  Slave Trade  Industrial Revolution  Christian Missionaries  Powerful European Countries  Role of Explorers and Traders  Exploitation of Natural Resources

5. PARTITION OF AFRICA  Contact with Africa-15 th Century  Started Occupying – 19 th Century  In 1914 A.D.-AlmostWhole of Africa Occupied by Europeans >BELGIUM TERRITORIES:  1878-Establishment of ‘International African Association’  1885-Free State of ‘Congo’ under King Leopald Profit

6. > BRITISH TERRITORIES  North Africa-Egypt –Sudan  East Africa – Uganda- Somaliland- zanzibar  West Africa- Gold Coast and Nigeria  South Africa- Cape Colony- Natal- Orange free state-Transwal- Rhodesia > THE FRENCH TERRITORIEs  Algeria-Tunis-French West Africa-Fashoda-Madagascar-Morroco > THE GERMAN TERRITORIES  German South Africa-German East Africa-Cameroons –Togoland > PORTUGUESE TERRITOTORIES  Angola-Mozambique > ITALIAN TERRITORIES  Eritrea-Somaliland-Italian defeat in Abyssinia-Tropoli

7. IMPACT OF PARTITION OF AFRICA  Economic Exploitation  Slave Trade  Temporary Positive Relations-France and Germany  Italy, Austria and Germany came closer  Morocco Crisis  Racial Discrimination  Conflict among countries  Led to First World War