Empire Partitioning
Europeans first took an interest in the African continent because they were involved in the
Slave Trade
Africans first began to challenge colonial rule following which conflict?
World War II
The European powers that colonized South Africa.
Who are the British?
The main goal of European countries when they divided Africa.
What is to establish colonies and exploit Africa's raw materials?
Renounced the ban on the ANC, and pardoned Mandela and other ANC leaders.
How did F.W. de Klerk change South African Policy after becoming president?
Meeting held to partition Africa and avoid a European war.
What is the Berlin Conference?
A feeling of strong pride for one's home country.
What is nationalism?
A series of segregationist laws set up by the white South African government.
What are apartheid laws?
The reasons the Mau Mau rebellion was a success for Kenyan independence.
What are it showed the British the Kenyans would fight back AND it raised global awareness?
These events made 1994 a significant year in the history of South Africa.
What are an election open to all races and Mandela being elected the first black president of South Africa?
This "event" led to European nations controlling almost all of Africa.
What is the "scramble for Africa"?
Its main purpose was to support Africa's common heritage and freedom.
What is the Pan-African movement?
One of the main groups that fought against apartheid.
What is the African National Congress (ANC)?
This united all 250 ethnic groups in Nigeria against British rule.
What are nationalism and the desire for independence?
What did the European countries fail to consider when making artificial political boundaries in Africa?
The differences in ethnic groups, cultures, and political traditions.
The European country that gained the most land in Africa.
What is Great Britain?
Nigeria was one of the last African nations to be conquered by European colonists. What year were they colonized?
1914
An educated lawyer who was a member of the ANC and protested apartheid.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
The group was declared illegal and he was sentence to life in prison.
What were South Africa's government's reaction to the ANC and Nelson Mandela?
Why do conflicts continue to erupt in many African countries after independence from European control?
Different tribes and ethnic groups still resent being forced to live together and economic inequality in Africa.
What is the "Age of Imperialism"?
The guerrilla group that staged a Kenyan rebellion in 1956.
Who are the Mau Mau?
The president of South Africa in 1989 who worked to dismantle apartheid laws.
Who was F.W. de Klerk?
The reason de Klerk and Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize.
What is for peacefully moving the country to a nonracial democracy?
Why were the Nigerian and Kenyan people were upset under colonial rule?
Life was harsh. The British government controlled their resources and took land from the native people.