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1 African Development Seminar- PIA 2574 Europe and Africa: The Emotional Issue?

2 Discussion: The Debate About Ethnicity Alex Thomson and Crawford Young Max Gluckman Clifford Geertz

3 Max Gluckman (Herman) Max Gluckman (26 January 1911 – 1913 April 1975) was a South African and British social anthropologist..

4 Case Studies: Bessie Head Bessie Emery Head (6 July 1937 - 17 April 1986) is usually considered Botswana's most influential writer

5 Alex La Guma Alex La Guma (20 February 1925 – 11 October 1985) was a South African novelist

6 Barbara Kimanye Born in East Africa December 19 1929 and Died on September 18, 2012

7 Settlers: Question: Was Europe’s Relationship with Africa Different than with the Middle East, Asia and Latin America?

8 One View

9 Discussion: Overview Issues 1. The impact of Settlers (Both European, Middle Eastern and Asian) on “your" part of Africa. 2.Francophone Issue: the impact of France on the region as a part of a European image and the extent to which the French in West Africa are "settlers.“ 3.The New Settlers? Foreign Aid Workers and Missionaries

10 Missionaries, Traders and Settlers: How to Assess British Settlers Missionaries and Settlers East Africa, the Federation Southern Africa The special issue of Namibia

11 Settlers Impact on the Whole Continent Different Definitions Question: Was Europe’s Relationship with Africa Different than with the Middle East, Asia and Latin America? The New Settlers: Foreign Aid Workers, Contractors and Missionaries?

12 Blog:

13 Settlers: The Issue and the Problem- Start with the Demographics Francophone Africa: North Africa, Algeria and permanent association The Importance of “Francophonie” on Culture and Values

14 Reminder of “Francophonie”

15 Settlers: Statistical Profile 1955-1970 Algeria: 1,000,000 (1955) Angola: 700,000 (1970) Mozambique: 250,000 (1970) Eritrea: 22,000 (Italians 1955)

16 Eritrea- 1940s

17 Asmara

18 Francophone Africa (c. 1958) Congo (Belgium): 110,000 (1958) Burundi: 5,000 Francophone: 30,000 (“colons”- estimated) Indians and Arabs (60,000)

19 French Colons in Algeria

20 “Sarkozy admits France made mistakes over Tunisia” Nicholas Sarkozy and Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali

21 West Africa Role of the "Syrians" and "Lebanese“ (c. 120,000) Arabs and Indians as "settlers?“ People of mixed race? Who are indigenous peoples?

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23 Ghana: A Lebanese Trader

24 Mixed Race Political Leaders- Jerry Rawlings, Ghana and Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia

25 East Africa: 1965 Tanganyika Whites: 23,000 Indians 100,000 Kenya Whites: 78,000 Indians: 110,000 Uganda Whites: 3,000 Indians: 78,000

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27 A white couple, settlers and horse owners, together with their staff, standing directly behind them, watch a polo game at Nairobi Polo Club, a remnant of Kenya's colonial history, July 1, 2007

28 British Army's mission in Kenya. To fulfill this mission it has three main parts: International Mine Action Training Centre (IMATC) - The IMATC is a joint British and Kenyan venture aimed at alleviating the suffering caused by landmines and Explosive Remnants of War by providing high quality Mine Action Training Peace Support Training Centre (PSTC) A presence in the Kenyan Defence Staff College

29 Goal to coordinate UK military assistance to armed forces in Eastern Africa in order to contribute to Security Sector Reform and to increase peacekeeping capacity “Shame of 200 British soldiers in 'tribal' bar brawl: Taunts between rival regiments explode into violence in Kenya” From Kenya Newspaper

30 Eastern and Southern Africa Indians in Eastern and Southern Africa Asians- The forgotten settlers Amin, Mugabe and the indigenous people argument

31 The Uganda Asians

32 Indigenous People- Wa Arusha Masai

33 Missionaries, Traders and Settlers, and now foreign aid British Settlers Missionaries and Settlers East Africa, the Federation Southern Africa The special issue of Namibia

34 Namibia Germans

35 Mixed Race Eastern and Central Africa 80,000 people Issue- Loyalty to the State and conflict with Indigenous Peoples

36 Kenya "White Mischief"- Settlers in Kenya Land and Compromise e. Post-colonial "whites"

37 Popularizers: Ernest and Mary Hemmingway and Madonna (Stereotyped Images)

38 The infamous story of Sir Jock Delves, Lady Diana Delamere and the Murder of Lord Errol in the Happy Valley of Kenya in 1941.

39 Still From The Film 'White Mischief'

40 Kenya Settlers- 1952 Origins of "Mau Mau"

41 Ten Minute Break

42 Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1953-1963 Federation: Indians: 30,000 Whites:310,000 Northern Rhodesia: whites: 76,000 Southern Rhodesia: whites: 223,000 (1975- 270,000) Nyasaland: 9,300 Whites

43 Traditional Leader in Northern Rhodesia- 1950s

44 Rhodesian Army, c. 1975

45 Bishop Abel Muzorewa, 1925-2010. Compromised with White Rulers (1978)

46 Henry Kissinger, Ian Smith and John Vorster

47 Zimbabwe- “White Africans?”

48 Zimbabwe Military demobilization and Rhodesia "Home Rule"- UDI Zimbabwe and Non-racialism Indigenous Peoples and Land

49 Land Economics In Zimbabwe

50 Southern Africa: The Other Settlers Portugal and Portuguese mass settlement and "provincial" status Over one million overseas Settlers 700,000 Angola, 250,000 Mozambique (eg. Teresa Heinz) Belgians, Greeks, Germans, Italians, Dutch, Americans- Indians (Asians), Arabs, Chinese

51 Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões-Ferreira Heinz (born October 5, 1938 in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique

52 Mixed Race: Afro-Europeans- “So Called Coloureds Eastern and Central Africa 80,000 people Issue- Loyalty to the State and conflict with Indigenous Peoples

53 Southern Africa- 1985 Botswana- Whites 5,000 Mixed Race 2,000 Swaziland Whites 8,000 Mixed Race 4,000 (Euro-african) Namibia- Whites100,000 (23,000 German speakers) Mixed Race: 22,000

54 King Mswati III of Swaziland

55 South Africa: The Special Case? Dutch- settlement and movement “So Called Coloureds“ [ and Indians] 1815: End of Napoleonic War 1820s settlers: British British vs. Dutch-

56 Prime Minister Winston Churchill (R) talking with Field Marshall Jan Christian Smuts (L) and Peter Fraser (C) at a Dominion Conference April, 1945

57 South Africa and the World Prior to WW II. White Dominion Investment and Mines World Wide Similarity of Values Part of “British Empire” Independent, legal, legitimate

58 August 26, 1966

59 South Africa and the World “Tar Baby”- Nixon, Kissinger: The Cold War and Apartheid and beyond Benign Neglect Tilt to the Whites, Rhodesia, Portugal and South Africa, 1975-1986 Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Sanctions Non-Racial Rule- 1994

60 Johannesburg

61 South Africa Trusteeship vs. Assimilation Segregation vs. Apartheid- "Homelands" as nations Afrikaans vs. African Nationalism Majority rule vs. minorities

62 South Africa’s Homelands, Prior to 1994

63 Homeland Presidents: 9th October 1971: Three Chiefs of South African 'Bantustan', (from left - right), Chief Buthelezi of Kwa Zulu, Chief Kaiser Matanzima of Transkei, and Chief Lucas Mangope of Bophuthatswana

64 South Africa Profile, 1985: Is South Africa Different? Indians 900,000 (2.7%) Africans: 24,000,000 (72%) Indigenous: San-Khoisian: 31,000 (less than.5%) Others: Chinese, Japanese, Arabic (30,000- less than.5%)

65 South Africa Profile, 1985 White: 4,800,000 (15%) (60% Afrikaans, 40% English and others) (Jewish South Africans approximately 100,000 people) “Coloured:” 3,900,000 (9%) (Mixed Race- 80% Afrikaans speaking, 20% English Speaking)

66 South Africa and the World Decolonization 1948 and Apartheid Homelands and Nationalism Anti-Communism White Nationalism like Black Nationalism “Polecat of the World”

67 South Africa Role of working class and poor whites Mining and labor reserve- "peasant based proletariat Multi-racialism, non-racialism vs. “Africanization”

68 “S0-Called Coloured” South Africans

69 Inauguration, May 10, 1994

70 South African History: A Reminder Trusteeship vs. Assimilation Segregation vs. Apartheid- "Homelands" as nations Afrikaans vs. African Nationalism Majority rule vs. minorities

71 Peasantariat Families and Mining- South African Mines and European Lights

72 South Africa: The Dependency Issues Role of working class and poor whites Mining and labor reserve- "peasant based proletariat Multi-racialism, non-racialism vs. “Africanization”

73 Settlers Redux Impact on the Whole Continent Question: Was Europe’s Relationship with Africa Different than with the Middle East, Asia and Latin America The New Settlers: Foreign Aid Workers, Contractors and Missionaries

74 Alum of the Week: Carrie Gruenloh, MPIA Univ. of Pittsburgh, Democracy Specialist (Southern Sudan) USAID

75 Authors What have you been reading this week?

76 Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski; 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) Heart of Darkness

77 Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Born November 13, 1969 in Mogadishu Somalia Infidel

78 Peter H. Eichstaedt, Born in 1947 First Kill Your Family

79 Summary Discussions Europe in Africa: nature of the relationship (Images)


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