POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY OF AFRICA AND PERSPECTIVES OF AFRICAN CULTURE Flashcards
WHAT IS POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY OF AFRICA
Political Geography of Africa accounts for *physical and *conceptual presence of Africa & African cultures, political systems and values across *time and space.
wHAT DOES PHYSICAL means
The Physical: Refers to what the map of Africa represents (land mass), its people, traditions, and political institutions
How many ways can Africa be divided physically
Physically, African can be divided regionally into
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) vs North Africa (Maghreb).
What does conceptual reffer to as
The Conceptual: African presence through its people, cultures, traditions, and practices both on the continent and in the diaspora
African diaspora
The African diaspora is a term used to describe the descendants of Africans who were forcibly taken from their homelands and transported to other parts of the world, primarily the Americas
“the global community of people of African descent who share a common history of displacement and struggle.”
African Diaspora—Europe, Caribbean, North America & South America, Pacific Islands, India, Asia.
Across time and space
Time & Space: refers to the historical & contemporary expansion of Africa: its values, political and religious systems in the diaspora and on the continent
Africa
Africa is the second largest continent after Asia
What continent is the largest continent
ASIA
Land area app in Africa
land area (incl. lakes, rivers, mountains, etc.) of a little over 11,700,000 km2
Land area of Africa
11,700,000km^2
How do Africa stretches
Continental Africa stretches about 5000 miles from Cape Town to Cairo, and 3000 from Dakar to Mogadishu
POPULATION IN AFRICA
1.32 billion live in Africa as at 2019
iMPORTANT FACTS
Continental Africa is about USA, Argentina, Europe, India, China and New Zealand combined or about 3½ the size of the USA
Continental africa the size of USA
3 and 1/2 size of usa
How many states do Africa has
Africa has 54 recognised states including island republic off its coasts
Are most countris in Africa multi-lingual
TrUE
What countries in Africa aren’t multi-lingual
WE HAVE SOMALIA SWAZILAND LESOTHO BOTSWANNA
HOW MANY LANGUAGES TO NIGERIA HAS
OVER 500 languages
how many language do kenya has
100 languages
Why is africa called CRADLE OF HUMANITY
Africa is the cradle of humanity; the first humans (homo sapiens) lived on African soil.
ALI MAZRUI’S VIEW OF AFRICA
“Africa is the first habitat of man but it is the last to be made habitable; Africans are not the most brutalized of all people but probably the most humiliated in modern history; African societies are not the closest to the West culturally but have been experiencing the most rapid pace of westernization; Africa is not the poorest of all the regions of the world in resources but it is the least developed of the inhabited continents; Africa is not the smallest of the continents but it is probably the most fragmented; and Africa is the most central of all continents in geographical location, but politically and to some extent militarily, it may be the most marginal.”
Ali Mazrui, The African Condition: A Political Prognosis London : (Heinemann, 1980) pp. 1-3
THE MOST FRAGMENTED
. Africa not the smallest of continents but is probably the most fragmented; [Asia = 49 states and S-America = 12]
BERLIN CONFERENCE
1884-1885
BERLIN CONFERENCE
The Berlin Conference of 1884–1885 was a meeting of European powers in Berlin, Germany, during the New Imperialism period. The goal of the conference was to regulate European colonization and trade in Africa. exploitation of Africa’s resources.
