Africa 2
Published on Nov 28, 2015
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
BERLIN CONFERENCE
- European powers met to impose divisions on the territory of Africa
- The Berlin Conference was notable for introducing legal provisions regarding the "spheres of influence" of nations
- For nearly a decade prior to the Berlin Conference, a variety of European nations were able to establish trade posts in Africa
- Africa was able to retain control of approximately 90 percent of the continent
EUROPEAN IMPERIALISM
- 20th century, several powers grew desperate for more land and more control
- In the 1870s, the Belgian King Leopold sent emissaries to establish trade with native Africans in the Congo
- nations of Europe, including: France, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Germany, Italy, and Portugal
- They traded manufactured goods for gold, ivory, palm oil
IMPERIALISTIC METHODS
- Strong military
- Economically superior
- Global denomination
- Nationalistic
END OF COLONIALISM
- European countries wer week after WWII so they gave African countries up
- Aboutn12 million people were displaced
- They had to decide between communists and republic government
- Once they gained their independence it was easy but it becomes a mess
LASTING EFFECTS
- Liberia, which had been founded by freed slaves and declared itself independent in 1847
- Ethiopia, which was an ancient territory, had never been colonised by a European power despite the attempts of the Italians in the 1880's and 1930's
- Egypt, which had achieved independence in 1922
- Britain had little choice then but to grant full independence to Sudan in 1956
