Lasting Legacies
Most African borders today were drawn in this era.
What is the colonial era / Scramble for Africa?
Europeans called Africa the “___ Continent.”
What is the Dark Continent?
Name one resource Europeans wanted during the Scramble.
What is rubber, gold, or diamonds?
True or False: Africans were only passive victims.
What is False?
This 1884–85 meeting divided Africa among European powers.
What is the Berlin Conference?
Colonizers built roads and railways mainly to reach these.
What are ports and mines?
The term for stereotyping other cultures to dominate them.
What is Orientalism?
Scientific expeditions often doubled as surveys for this.
What is resource extraction?
One way Africans resisted colonization.
What is armed resistance (e.g., Zulu, Mahdist revolt)?
Europeans used these drawings to prove land claims.
What are maps?
Old colonial maps and reports still shape this today.
What is academic geography?
Wrong ideas about these rivers shaped colonial borders.
What are the Niger and Congo rivers?
Besides geography, this science supported colonialism.
What is botany (plant studies)?
Some leaders used this strategy to delay conquest.
What is treaty negotiation or alliances?
This concept explains how maps make people easier to govern.
What is governmentality (power/knowledge)?
One major modern issue caused by colonial planning.
What is uneven development or border disputes?
This concept means representation erases real complexity.
What is epistemic violence?
This concept links science and money together.
What is political economy?
African merchants influenced colonialism through this.
What is controlling trade and goods?
Unlike African ideas of land, European maps created these.
What are fixed borders?
Colonial “tribal” labels created this political problem.
What is constructed ethnicity / invented tradition?
These everyday activities were disrupted by new borders.
What are trade routes and pastoral migrations?
This crop was developed from colonial plant research.
What is cocoa, cotton, or rubber plantations?
This anthropological term means adapting under pressure.
What is agency or hybridity?
These modern conflicts often come from colonial borders.
What are ethnic conflicts/border disputes?