374-378 Flashcards
What does Shillington say was an overlooked atrocity
the rebellion of 350k Baya in French Equatorial Africa in the late 1920s. The salughter that acompanied it in 1928-31 was one of the great atrocities of colonial rule in Africa.
What was Kimbanguism?
a movement around the church founded by Simon Kimbangu in 1921. Kimbangu declared himself a prophet and predicted that God would deliver the Congolese from colonial oppression.
where and when did the most significant strikes in the colonial ere African labor movement take place?
on the mines and railways of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Gold Coast in the 1920s and on the Copperbelt of Northern Rhodesia in 1935 and 1940
what was th significance of the growth of a new educated african elite. Where did this elite develop and what form did it take?
In the ports and administrative towns of east, west, and central Africa, there was a steady growth of a new, educated, African elite: clerks, interpreters, traders, teachers and clergyment. These people wer particularly conscious of the social and economic injustice fo colonial society and their own exclusion from the politics of their country.
what trend occured across tropical Africa in the ’20s and ’30s.
Aficans were forming self-help welfare associations and these were used increasingly to protest injustices
what did the cocoa farmers of the gold coast do during the First World War.
they withheld their cocoa harvests until prices offered by coastal merchants were increased
what was the significance of W.E.B Du Bois and the pan-African congresses
between 1919 and 1927 Du Bois was involved in the organization of no fewer than seven Pan-African Congresses in London, Paris, Brussels, Lisbon and New York. Although they called for the end of racial discrimination and tehe colonial empires ain Africa, these congresses attracted little attention within Africa itslef
who was the most influential of the Pan-African voices
Marcus Garvey, Jamiacan-born founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association
what was the Negritude movement?
a movement of French-speaking writers from the Caribbean Africa that favored blackness and pride in the ancient cultures of Africa.
when did the rapid rise of Egyprian nationalism take place?
1918-19
what political party took the lead in Egyptian Nationalism? who was the leader?
Wafd under Sa’ad Zaghlul
when did Egypt gain independence
1922
what was the political situation after independence
Sultan Fu’ad became the king of Egypt. the British Army remained the power behind the throne
what was Africa’s first national political party? where was it located?
South Africa.
between what years did successive white governemtns pass a series of laws in the Union of South Africa that enforced racial segregation?
between 1910 and 1940
