what do you think the cake up front represents?

What do you think the cake up front represents?

• Africa has many raw materials and natural resources not found in Europe including: – cotton– rubber– ivory– minerals including gold and diamonds

Why Africa?

The Scramble for Africa

Berlin Conference (1884) meetings held in Berlin, Germany European nations attended the

conference. African rulers DID NOT. The European nations partitioned (divided) Africa amongst themselves.

Europeans owned almost ALL of Africa by the end of the conference.

The Berlin Conference

Independence• European countries began to

free their colonies in the 1950s

• By 1960 - 27 free countries• By 1975 - 47 free countries

Problems After Independence Different ethnic and religious

groups wanted to be in control of their new countries

This lead too many long, bloody civil wars throughout Africa

Lack of education also lead to problems because native African leaders were not prepared to run the new countries left in their control

Conflicts still continue today!