EUROPEAN IMPERIALISM IN AFRICA

BERLIN CONFERENCE

• The Berlin Conference was Africa's undoing in more ways than one
• At the time of the conference, 80% of Africa remained
• under traditional and local control
• Divided Africa into fifty irregular countries.
• The conference lasted until February 26, 1885

EUROPEAN IMPERIALISM

• Europe was interested in Africa because is was new land and things
• Could be made and sold for better profit
• They wanted to spread Christianity and their culture into Africa
• The Europeans wanted more land for more power
• They eventually destroyed many African social groups by spreading

IMPERIALISTIC METHODS

• The motives were frequently associated with the three G’s -
• Gold, God and Glory
• Using European administrators for direct colonial rule.
• Protectorate arrangement where a local colonial ruler and the government
• carried on as usual. Final method was known as the “sphere of influence.”

END OF COLONIALISM

• Anticolonialist movements had begun to gain momentum after the close of
• World War I
• Decolonization itself was a seemingly unstoppable process
• Anti-colonial wars,natives drove out their colonial masters, went into the 1960's/70's.
• 200 year process that began with our Revolutionary War, until ending mid-to-late 20th century

LASTING EFFECTS OF COLONIALISM

• One long term effect of colonization is a change in the culture of a
• colonized area or people group/
• a side-effect that religion by colonialism is adapted by colonized peoples
• Colonization has given new trade routes and some strong economies in lands
• Gave European powers access to fund their own economic development