Decolonization

How did the decolonization process start

after ww2 colonial powers no longer seen as invincible, rise in nationalism, los of human rights movements (also creation of UN),

How did it develop

Independence movements

Mohamed Ghandi led a movement against Britain, India and Pakistan split because India wanted more secular and Pakistan more Muslim, Africans became more aware of the world,

in east Africa with a better climate the settlers stayed and they used the africans as servants 

Kenya: land was taken

colonial legacy: ghana was rich from coco and they had a lot of calories but then they never used them, it was a financial disaster

critical events gold coast

in 1947 United Gold Coast Convention was formed by nationalist members of the bourgeois as a political instrument to expedite the progress toward self development

led to undoing of British empire in sub saharan africa

in feb 1948 when police fired shots and killed two Ghanian former servicemen involved in a veterans protest

How biases influence the narrative

the British claimed that it was them who decided on decolonisation and not the Nationalists,

Eurocentric