Hat Tips to Historians Paper 3 IB History of Africa HL

Herbst Model

• Cost of extending power, Nature of Boundaries, Nature of the state system = consolidation of power over distance

• Emphasis on lack of infrastructure = lack of development

Janet Abu-Lughod

World systems - Mali

• World systems rise when integration increases and decline when connection among older pathways decay

• World systems require: 

  • Social organization and marketing

  • Techniques for monetization and exchange - gold weights/cowrie shells

  • Technology of shipping and navigation

Michael Gomez

Mansa Musa and Global Mali

• A “Kingdom of Urban space”, cities are the locus of power

• Mande ethnic core

Sidney Mintz

Congo.

• Sweetness and Power: human suffering for the slave trade was all for goods like sugar 

Richard Reid

• Believes that African states are very strong and are forged militarily through their relationship with European powers

• African war must be understood in the global context

JA Hobson

On the partition

• All financial - British are in Egypt because of debt not because of any other reasons

Jackson

Colonial governments are incredible limited, acting more like a rural country than a modern state

WEB DuBois

Pan Africanism

Saw Africa as one united continent since the people of african diaspora could not always trace their roots

Mamood Mamdani

Problem of national citizenship (nigeria)

the prerequisite to life is to give up on the monopoly of power

James C Scott

Tanzania

State schemes adopt a scientistic pose but seek to maximize control. He believes they inevitably fail because they lack complexity..

Sydney Tarrow

Civil rights movement

Shifting activities of social movements can alter political policies and structures

Franz Fanon

Algeria

Colonialism is violence in its natural state. Decolonization is always a violent phenomenon

Ian Kershaw

Hitler

There was nothing inevitable about Hitler’s ascension to power.
“Fatal embrace.“

Zygmunt Bauman

Holocaust

Genocide is baked into modernity because of nationalism. A utopian ideal and when things don’t fit, you pull out the weeds.

June Chang

Mao

Mao turned the people into the ultimate weapon of dictatorship