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Effects of European Rule
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1. New Economic Systems Raw materials to European factories
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b. Money economy instead of trading
Africans required to pay taxes Left home to work in mines and on farms Disrupted the family
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2. Material Improvements
Roads, railroads and telegraphs Africans forced to work on the improvements for low wages Encouraged migration of workers, weakened the family and village
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b. Improved hospitals and medical care
c. Elementary schools for Africans Learned European history and culture
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African Nationalism Nationalism: Sense of pride in and devotion to one’s country Africans realized they would have to unify to win independence
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Pan-Africanism Called for unifying all of Africa Early 1900s
“Africa for the Africans”
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Independence Post-WWII European countries weakened by war
USSR and US spoke out against European rule in Africa 1950s-1970s – African countries gained independence
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