hist 1020 the scramble for africa

Europe goes into africa for economic gain in terms of NATURAL RESOURCES. there are 2 of them:

IVORY

RUBBER

KEY CONCEPTS

OTHERING

BERLIN CONFERENCE

KING LEOPOLD II

CULTURE OF IMPERALISM

SOCIAL DARWINSIM

ORIENTALISM

the capitalist perspective

ppl misusing land bc not making the most benefit out of land, so they don’t deserve that land.

europeans desired to EXPLORE AFRICA. who was the missionary guy who explored africa and lost contact for a few years?

DAVID LIVINGSTONE

who was the guy who found DAVID LIVINGSTONE and wrote about his adventures?

HENRY MORTON STANLEY CUP!!

what were the european’s missions for going into africa?

-convert africans to CHRISTIANITY and use it as basis for CIVILIZATION.

missionaries

work

capitalism

OTHERING

process of seeing another cultural group as inferior due to exaggerated differences

the white man’s burden

its a white man’s job to spread christianity to other people & to colonize. used by imperialists & ironically by anti-imperialists

“the dual mandate in british tropical africa” by frederick lugard (white guy)

frederick lugard was an example of the white man’s burden. said that it is the genius of our race to colonize, trade, govern, & british rule makes ppl happy

the BERLIN CONFERENCE 1884

european imperial leaders meet up to discuss how to SPLIT up AFRICAN TERRITORIES between them. there were no people from africa in this conference.

africans resisted against european imperial control over their land. they could do 2 things to try to resist:

negotiate

fight

LAT DIOR

SENEGAL LEADER opposing railroad construction & then killed by FRENCH troops

MENELIK II of ETHIOPIA

this leader guy was bonkers dude. he pitted european enemies against each other, then defeated italians.

HERERO & NAMA GENOCIDE 1904

rebellion against german rule

100 germans killed

COLLECTIVE PUNISHMENT- herero & nama ppl forced into desert to die of starvation

africa was divided due to imperial governing based on

European TRADE CENTERS

yoruba split

mandara split

the adminishtration in africa was now imperial. unfortunately, it fell into the hands of men who were not versed in leadership. these gusy were called

men on the spot

under the imperial administration in africa after being split up btwn european imperial rulers, the goal of the new colonial systems were to do 3 things:

• be self sufficient

• keep peace

• attract missionaries & trade

in africa, now there was a change in economics. the EARLY exports coming out of africa were 2 things:

IVORY

RUBBER

after ivory & rubber depleted, the LATER EXPORTS out of africa were a few things:

COCOA

COFFEE

PALM OIL

TEA

SISAL

COTTON

africa was now becoming a source of raw materials like what happened to india

KING LEOPOLD II

leopold birthed the CONGO FREE STATE because of greed, originally was a charitable enterprise in belgium

red rubber system

quotas of rubber & ivory for each village that, if not met, led to punishment (severing hands)

CULTURE OF IMPERIALISM

the belief that europeans annd americans created modern culture, and other people like aricanns were not evolved

everyday reminders of imperial conquest

royal navy, grand leet, fighter admiral in cigarette brands

SOCIAL DARWINISM

the idea was to GROW the POPULATION to outstrip growth in colonized countries, and to achieve thhe FINAL IMPERIAL PROJECT which was to breed enough citizens to overspread the world

ORIENTALISM

viewing other regions as exotic

negro written by langston hughes

african diaspora response