1. Nationalist Movements in Africa

2. Target Interpreting the Visual Record
Why did the French want to control this region of Africa?
A French colonist directs African workers on a rubber plantation in French Equatorial Africa in the 1940s.

3. Target Interpreting the Visual Record
Why did the French want to control this region of Africa?
Answer: To control the region’s resources such as rubber.
A French colonist directs African workers on a rubber plantation in French Equatorial Africa in the 1940s.

4. Key Terms and Places Nationalist Movements in Africa
boycott (pp. 196 & 310) – Refuse to buy.
apartheid (pp. 196 & 278) – The South African government policy of separation of races, which began to disappear in the 1980’s.
Nelson Mandela (p. 196) – This man was imprisoned for 26 years. He was then freed from prison and elected the first black President of South Africa.
Wole Soyinka (p. 197) – This man was a Nigerian writer, poet, and playwright who won awards for his stories about African life, music, and art.

5. Boycott

6. Apartheid

7. Nelson Mandela

8. Wole Soyinka

9. Now, create your own illustrated vocabulary flipbook!
Boycott
Apartheid
Nelson Mandela
Wole Soyinka