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TIME LINE

African Regional Scenario

The BerlnConference1884 - 1885

Scramble forAfrica

1886

Role ofexplorers,

traders andchristian

missionares

European

Imperialism in

Africa.

1870 - 1898

Colonial

Rule in

Africa


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The Berln Conference 1884 - 1885

Mambu Ma Nzambi Kabinda , The Scramble for Africa:

Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 to Divide Africa, recovered in Oct. 11 2010, URL :http://www.cabinda.net/Berlin_Conference.htm


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In November 1884, the imperialchancellor and architect of theGerman Empire, Otto von Bismarck,

convened a conference of 14 states(including the United States) to settlethe political partitioning of Africa.

Bismarck wanted not only to expand

German spheres of influence in Africabut also to play off Germany's colonialrivals against one another to theGermans' advantage.

Of these fourteen nations, France,Germany, Great Britain, and Portugalwere the major players in theconference, controlling most ofcolonial Africa at the time.


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Alistair, Boddy-Evans. What Caused the Scramble for Africa? Why was Africa so rapidly

colonized?, recovered in Oct. 11 2010, URL :

http://africanhistory.about.com/od/eracolonialism/a/ScrambleWhy.htm


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.but why was Europe interested in

Africa?


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What European did once they gained

control ?

Khapoya, Vincent. Coloniallism and African experience, in The African Experience book. 1998.

Prentice-Hall. Pp. 135 137


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The Role of Traders & Christian

Missionaries.


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Traders:

Think Exist. From Africa to Europe, recovered in Oct. 11 2010, URL:

http://library.thinkquest.org/13406/ta/2.htm


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Christian Missioners:

The introduction of the church into

Africa by the Portuguese was in the late

years of the 1400s in Benin, Angola, and

Congo. This facilitated the establishmentof commercial routes and the unification

of the kingdoms.

The Christian missions, promoted theestablishment of schools that provided

literacy and the raise of productivity.


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By the year 1875 European possessions in

Africa consisted of fortifications and trading

posts along the coast. But between 1880 and

1910, Africa was divided up among the

European nations.

For the next 50 years Africa was almosttotally controlled by the European powers.

Mali and

West Africa came under French rule.

Britain's colonies were scattered throughoutthe continent. Although the French

controlled the most territory, Britain ruled

the greatest number of people.

European imperialism in Africa

Jim Lloyd. Colonialism and Imperialism, recovered in Oct. 11 2010, URL :http://www.fresno.k12.ca.us/divdept/sscience/history/imperialism_colonialism.htm


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Mc Dougal, Litell, (1999) , TELESCOPING THE TIMES: The Age of Imperialism, 1850-1914

Recovered in October 11, 2010. URL:

http://mclane.fresno.k12.ca.us/wilson98/assigments/impch11.html


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Colonial Rule in Africa


Prentice-Hall. Pp. 126


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There is five benefits of colonization,according to some (western)scholars.

1-. Introduction of western medicine.

2-. Introduction of formal education.

3-. Establishment of infrastructure,development of new skills.

4-. Introduction of Islam andChristianity simplified Africanspirituality.


Prentice-Hall. Pp. 126

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