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Imperialisms affect on Africa

Two WavesFirst wave from late 1400s to early 1800s. Revolved around the West Coast and slave trade.

Impact of First WaveUntold. How can you say what taking 10-15 million people out of an area by force does to the culture, economy, politics, psyche, morale, innovation, etc?

Did contribute to increased tribal warfare as neighbors are encouraged to fight each other for more slaves to trade. Contributed to weakened states.

Second Wave had to do with economic resources and claim of Empire. 1800s mid 1900s. Solidified with 1888 Berlin Congress

Impact of Second WaveAgain, how can you assess what dividing up a continent among European nations in order to exploit labor and resources by creating fake borders grouping different peoples together and giving them new identities can do to the culture, economy, psyche, morale, innovation, etc?

Neocolonialism existed just as in Latin America but with much more control. Made African nations mine and farm for Europe. Disallowing their development into industry or other business.

This is still being done by foreign companies cooperating with the leadership in some African nations. Examples of cell phones and oilhttp://pulitzercenter.org/video/congos-bloody-coltan

http://pulitzercenter.org/blog/untold-stories/crude-awakeningDone in the name of White Mans Burden

Some argued against this new wave of imperialism either on economic or moral groundsToo expensive and benefits did not outweigh the costsNations believed in Enlightenment ideals and democracythis was not representative of what European nations stood for. Changed languagesChanged religionsChanged tradeChanged bordersChanged power structuresChanged view of human rightsChanged tax structure (cash payments traps people into becoming wage earners in European interests as miners or farmers)

Some positives claimedEducation BUThttp://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2013/01/16-africa-learning-watkins, Some industry and transportation BUThttp://www.fao.org/wairdocs/ad696e/ad696e04.htm, http://digitaldocsinabox.org/images/Imperialism/building_railway.htmlMedicine BUThttp://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/31/opinion/31washington.html?_r=0, http://thinkafricapress.com/society/african-witchcraft-modern-realityExamplesSouth Africaapartheid

How Change Occurred..\Downloads\HD Stock Footage Apartheid - South Africa Protests - Civil Rights.mp4

1994 Election

Modern Day Results

Or..\Downloads\Post Apartheid South Africa.mp4Europeans fault? Or get over it Ms. Irving?Congo..\Downloads\Congo-The Brutal History.mp4

How Changed Occurred ..\Downloads\Belgian Congo uprising.mp4..\Downloads\Malcolm X on the Assasination of Lumumba in the Congo.mp4

Modern Day Results

..\Downloads\Belgium- A Shadowy Legacy in the Congo - European Journal.mp4http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50144817nhttp://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504803_162-57579505-10391709/interviews-with-konys-child-soldiers/Europeans fault? (Belgium!)Or get over it Ms. Irving?RwandaHutus and Tutsis

How Conflict Emerged

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=3004020nModern Day Results

..\Downloads\Remarks to Victims and Survivors of the Genocide in Rwanda.mp4Europeans fault?Or get over it Ms. Irving?Middle East

Independence

Israel/Palestine

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2005/08/occupied_minds.html#Europeans fault?Or get over it Ms. Irving?Decolonization came in general becauseTwo world wars had destroyed Europes ability to hold on to colonies. Nationalism (African and Arab) motivated colonial peoples to argue for freedom. The United Nations mandated that colonies be freed world wide. Colonial peoples had fought in both wars for democracy and freedomMorality finally started to kick in to some of the European attitudes. Cold War Impact TooThe Cold War saw the savage murder or violent overthrow by the British, Americans, Belgians, French and Portuguese of nationalist African leaders including Patrice Lumumba, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Luis Cabral, Eduardo Mondlane, Samora Marcel, Milton Obote, Hamed Sekou Toure, Gamel Abdel Nasser and Ahmed Ben Bella who were dubbed terrorists or Russian and Chinese sympathizers.The lucky ones Jomo Kenyatta, Robert Mugabe and Nelson Mandela were given long prison sentences from which they were never expected to come out, alive. Today, Mandelas statue stands as a monument of British cynicism, in Parliament square, London. The human, social and economic wounds inflicted on Africa by the Cold War are still very raw. Mozambique, Angola and Namibia are littered with millions of land mines and other unexploded military ordinances, which will kill people for centuries to come. Algeria, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Chad, Central African Republic, Nigeria, Sudan and Uganda are fighting self-destruct wars, while Somalia ceased to be a state in 1992, thanks to western weapons.Overall, the Cold War left Africa on the life-support machine of western food aid administered by the World Food Programme, while their leaders pay lip service to cure the patient.

ANDhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22570071

UN in Congo

Some attempts to Change

Blood diamond campaign