Africa

Question 1

1. What role did infrastructure play in Africa under colonialism?

Answer 1

a. Extractivism.
b. Travel and communication through colonial infrastructure.
c. Take out the raw materials to the industrialized Europe.

Question 2

2. What were the two methods of control used by Britain and France in their mandates in Africa?

Answer 2

a. Indirect – Great Britain.
b. Direct – France.

Question 3

3. Why did colonialism produce nationalist leaders?

Answer 3

a. A nationalist educated elite. This was specially in the case of French colonies. They created their own social elite of Africa, the ones that demonstrated success.
b. This local elite adopted the european ideas of injustice, explotation, racism.
i. They bring this idead to their local context.
ii. It emerges the nationalist movement with the creation of political parties.

Question 4

4. Name nationalist political parties in Africa.

Answer 4

a. South Africa’s ANC

Question 5

5. What is Pan-Africanism?

Answer 5

a. Self-identification challenges colonial identities.
b. Africans have the same history and destiny in Africa and the diaspora.

Question 6

6. In what year did the independence of African countries begin?

Answer 6

a. After WWII
b. Since 1952

Question 7

7. What was the first country to gain independence, and who was its leader?

Answer 7

a. Ghana.
b. Kwame Nkrumah.