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Africa history
Africa history - Nigeria, Kenya, S Africa
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What were the Portuguese looking for when they first landed in Africa? | A passage around Africa to get to India and Asia |
| What were the reasons for European interest in Africa? | The European powers were interested in expanding their empires, setting up military bases, the vast wealth of natural resources that are in Africa, a market for their goods, wanted cheap labor |
| Why did missionaries come to Africa? | To spread Christianity to the native people |
| What caused the “scramble for Africa?” | Competition among European countries to get the best land and natural resources found in Africa |
| What was the Berlin Conference? Who Was involved? Who was not involved? What was the purpose? | A meeting held in 1884 where European nations divided up the continent of Africa in order to avoid going to war over who got what territories in Africa. No African countries were present at this meeting. |
| Which countries in Africa were never colonized (remained independent)? | Ethiopia and Liberia |
| How did Europeans view Africans? | As 2nd class, inferior to Europeans |
| How did the Industrial Revolution influence European contact with Africa? | Europeans needed cheap labor, raw materials, and a market for their goods. Resources were mined and collected by Africans, sent to European factories, shipped back to Africa and sold to same people who harvested them. |
| How was Africa affected by colonialism? | Most countries were weak/poor due to them getting robbed of natural resources, conflict/wars between tribes, tribal cultures changed dramatically (loss of religion and culture), many tribes in one country made governing/unity hard, natives undereducated. |
| How did Europeans make ethnic rivalries worse? | Ethnic Groups were split that had always been together and others were put together that did not get along. Europeans did not pay attention to culture when drawing boundaries and this caused conflict between groups. |
| How did Europeans “control” Africa/Africans? | Forced assimilation and local chiefs were used indirectly to control the population |
| In what ways can you see the results of colonialism in African countries today? | Continued strife/civil wars due to groups being put together or broken apart during colonization, government instability/dictatorships. |
| Why are there unstable governments in Africa? | European countries never taught African countries how to rule for themselves, they simply left them to fend for themselves once they became too costly to maintain. Ethnic and religious differences have caused constant conflict. |
| Who founded the country of Liberia? | Former freed slaves in the U.S. |
| How did Nigeria gain independence? | Peacefully through negotiations |
| Why was Kenya not colonized for hundreds of years? | Kenya had fierce tribal warriors that kept out European countries. |
| Why did countries like Great Britain give independence after WWII? | They were too costly to maintain them and nationalism was spreading. |
| What was the goal of the Pan – African Movement? | A movement where Africans identified themselves as Africans primarily rather than citizens of their particular countries. It served to unite Africans all over the world. |
| Who was Jomo Kenyatta? | Founding father of Kenya and leader of KNAU (Kenyan National African Union) |
| What was the Nationalist movement? | Feeling of extreme pride in one's nation—led to African countries wanting their independence |
| What is Apartheid? | The legal separation of races in S. Africa |
| What is assimilation? | native people were forced to give up their culture and adopt the language, religion, and way of life of their European mother country |
| What is a dictatorship? | government where one leader has all the power |
| What are Homelands? | territories set aside for blacks to reside in as part of the apartheid system in South Africa |
| Who is Nelson Mandela? | First black democratically elected president of South Africa (chosen by blacks and whites) once apartheid had ended--1994 |
| Who were the Mau-Mau? | advocated violent resistance to British domination in Kenya; led an uprising in Kenya |
| What was the Pan African movement? | A movement where Africans identified themselves as Africans primarily rather than citizens of their particular countries. It served to unite Africans. **All Africans around the world could think of Arica as a homeland |
| What was the ANC? | The African National Congress-formed in 1912 and it worked for equal treatment of the non-white population of South Africa. |
| What was the KAU(KNAU)? | Kenyan African National Union – is a Kenyan political party that ruled for nearly 40 years after Kenya's independence from British colonial rule in 1963 until its electoral loss in 2002. |
| Who was F.W. de Klerk? | Last white president of South Africa who worked together with Nelson Mandela to bring equal rights to all members of South Africa and end apartheid there |
| What is Imperialism? | A system were a strong country takes wealth and raw materials from another country. |
| What is Indirect rule? | Use of local tribe leaders to control the native population for European powers |
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