scramble for africa
Meeting of European (and U.S.) powers that resulted in the partitioning of Africa
What was the Berlin Conference?
“The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line."
What line did W.E.B. Du Bois popularize in his 1900 "Address to the Nations of the World"?
The Crisis
What is the NAACP's monthly magazine?
The Nardal sisters, Aimé Césaire, Léon Damas & Léopold Sédar Senghor
Who were the co-founders of the Négritude movement?
Congo Free State
Name of King Leopold's II colony in central Africa (1885-1908)?
anti-malarial drug extracted from bark of the Cinchona tree
What is quinine?
Henry Sylvester Williams
Who was the London-based, Trinidadian lawyer who organized the First Pan-African Conference?
Dusé Mohamed Ali
Who was the founder of the African Times and Orient Review?
red for the blood of the people, green for Africa's lushness, black for the people of the continent and the diaspora
What do the colors of the Pan-African flag represent?
Archibald Motley Jr.
Who painted Blues in 1929?
"legitimate commerce"
What mission did European nations purport to be carrying out in Africa and Asia under the regime of "new imperialism"?
“The Negro Problem in America"
Title of the essay Anna J. Cooper presented at the 1900 conference?
Universal Negro Improvement Association
Organization founded by Marcus and Amy Ashwood Garvey in 1914?
Aspects of Negro Life
Famous mural series completed by Aaron Douglas during the Harlem Renaissance?
large landmass, disease, resistance, warfare, etc.
Why had Europeans remained largely limited to Africa’s coast since their arrival in 1470s?
Ethiopia and Liberia
Which two African countries remained independent at the turn of the twentieth century?
Benito Sylvain
Who was the Haitian Aide-de-Camp to Emperor Menelik of Abyssinia that attended the 1900 conference?
La Revue du Monde Noir
Journal founded by the Nardal sisters in 1931?
Biguine
Music/dance style from Martinique that was popularized in Paris in the 1930s?
"My negritude is not a stone, its deafness hurled against the clamor of the day / my negritude is not a leukoma of dead liquid over the earth's dead eye / my negritude is neither tower nor cathedral"
Famous lines from Césaire's Notebook of a Return to a Native Land?
"sleeping sickness"
What is the disease tsetse flies can transmit to humans?
Johannesburg and Accra in 2014
Where and when was the 8th Pan-African Congress held?
“Rise, you mighty giant! Rise! Ethiopia will soon be unbound!"
Famous line from Ethiopia Unbound by J.E. Casely Hayford?
Yahdé
What was Jeanne Nardal's pseudonym?
Battle of Adwa of 1896
In what conflict did Ethiopia successfully defeat Italian colonizers?