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| Colonialism prior to 1880's |
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| Very few Europeans before 1880's. Only about 10% of Africa's total area was colonized. |
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| Algeria, Senegal, Gabon (All west coast countries.) |
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| Coastal areas of South Africa, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria. |
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| Egypt and Libya (North East) |
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| Berlin Conference 1884,1885 |
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| The "scramble" for Africa! 1884-1885, Europe recognized South Africa's mineral wealth, conference set the ground rules for European competition for capture and holding of colonies. They drew up artificial boundaries between colonies that divided existing africans. Goal was to seperate colonies of lineage to make sure they wouldn't resist colonization and pinned opposing tribes into the same colony. |
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| Imperial powers turned colonies into mines and plantations to |
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| extract resources for export to Europe to support industrial growth as well as the military in WW1 and WW2 |
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| Consequences of slavery in Africa |
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| African states and Africans lost power to control domestic economies, politics and education and culture. |
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| Existing African Elites were used as puppets by... |
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| Imperial Powers to control colonies. |
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| More consequences of slavery |
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| Status of women decline,the power they once had was destroyed, women working at home to support the men that became migrant workers became held as little value. |
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| Imperial Powers created "Tribalism" |
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| Loyalty to the largest group of people claiming descent from a common ancestor at some time in the remote past; or people from the same ethnic and language group. |
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| African Kingdoms prior to colonialism were made up of... |
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| Multi ethnic groups that incorporated millions of people. Contrary to the stereotypical small tribe groups. Tribalism caused groups not to be able to unite and resist colonial powers. |
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| Disintegration of African Economy |
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| Colonies were linked only to Imperial powers, not other parts of Africa, creating underdevelopment. |
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| African Handicraft industries were wiped out by imperial competition and their ability to make |
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| industrial goods from Europe. |
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| Economic Growth only took place in |
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| Export Conclaves; locations where mines and plantations exported to core, but had no links to local economy so there was no development. |
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| Traditionally diversified agriculture was replaced by |
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| monocrop plantations that made Africa more vulnerable to famine, plant diseases, and price functioning by the core. |
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| Colonialism created chronic undernourishment and malnutrition of African Children because of |
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| Monocrop plantations and low wages for African workers that made buying enough food difficult. |
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