Missionaries Explorers Administrators

Question 1

David livingstone

Answer 1

• lectures at cambridge + book on travels in 1857
• found by henry stanley in 1871, died a martyr
• found and named victoria falls in 1885
  He provided inspiration to public and explorers

Question 2

Sir Richard Burton

Answer 2

• famous for stories of muslim lives
• daring visits to arabian cities eg Mecca where no westerners had been
• produced translations of 16 volume edition of arabian nights in 1888
• books describing west africa tribal rituals

Question 3

Missionaries

Answer 3

• set up churches
• staked claim to territories and extending reach

Question 4

Cecil rhodes

Answer 4

• Owned all of south africas diamond mines
• british south africa company, royal charter in 1889
• forced indigenous tribes out to make way for development
• rhodesia

Question 5

George Goldie

Answer 5

• united african company
• didn’t receive charter
• signed treaties with tribe chiefs
• secured over 450
  Britain able to get protectorate over nigeria at berlin conference, giving him charter as Royal Niger Company
• he later became administrator

Question 6

Baring

Answer 6

• over baring
• approved the dufferin report (highlighted major crisis in egypt finances and administration)
• this asserted need for british reforms
• ## he established veiled protectorate

Question 7

Bartle frere

Answer 7

• deliberately provoked war with the zulus, who he saw as obstacle to confederation
• 1878
• ended in british victory but involved shocking defeats of British forces in ISANDHLWANA in 1879
• high cost too
• denounced for acting hastily
• man on the spot