European partitioning across Africa contributed to conflict, civil war, and artificial political boundaries.
European countries began to feel imperialism by taking over several countries in Africa. They did this between 1870 and 1914. European countries did this because they wanted to trade products and the desire to expand their empire. Since they wanted to expand their empire, a lot of European states united into one nation (resulting in nationalism) and fought for land and resources. Technology was crucial for Europeans to take over African countries, and the type of technology being new weapons, advances in transportation, and medicine. The Zulu tribe fought back in South Africa against European rule, and slowly, many others. To do so, they did not adopt European culture, and stayed true to their African roots. Europeans did not like this, and treated Africans very poorly, and unequally. Africans had few rights, played little part in ruling their countries, and their cultures weren't respected. At the end of World War I, Africans began to call for independence. This began the Pan-African Movement. It was a worldwide movement begun by people of African descent living in Britain, the U.S., and the West Indies who wanted equality for everyone of African heritage. . Nations of Africa (including South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria) gained independence after World War II. "Apartheid" was a system of laws that denied black South-Africans any political rights, in which the South African government eventually took down. The reason for this is not only because of civil rights, but it hurt the economy. Countries embargoed South Africa, and slowly, South Africa was loosing money. Nelson Mandela and F.W. de Klerk played a very big role in taking down apartheid, and my group created biopoems for them both. Link: https://docs.google.com/a/hallco.org/document/d/1OFTYoRHblcGyxo1suE-71wlIUyj3FFN1VVyvAVidHp0/edit?usp=sharing |