year 2- booklet 7 Flashcards
Colonial Development Corporation
-1948
-set up to coordinate African projects
-Renamed Commonwealth Development Corporation 1963
Burns constitution
-Gold Coast
-1946
-legislative council with 12 Br nominees and 18 elected Africans
-led to riots in Accra and Nkrumah founding CPP 1949
Nkrumah imprisonment
-1950
-1951 CPP won 2/3 assembly seats
-1952 Nkrumah PM
GC independence
-1957 elections carried out
-6th March 1957 GC independent as Ghana
Richards Constitution
-1946
-Nigeria
-increased African representation
-expanded Legislative Council
-3 regional assemblies
Macpherson Constitution
-1951
-Nigeria
-extended franchise, national council of ministers responsible to 185 seat of federal house representatives
-regions allowed own govt
-federal house couldn’t overrule regional govt
tensions in Nigeria
-parties created on ethnic/ regional lines
-elections 1954 devolved more power to regions (9 ministers from political parties rep 3 regions)
Nigeria independence
Oct 1960
Sierra Leone & Gambia
-Sierra Leone= 1961 independent
-Gambia= 1965 independent
Kenya
-white settler colony
-Nairobi’s population increased by 50% during ww2
Tanganyika Groundnut Scheme
-1946
-Tried to grow groundnut for oil
-spent £45mill
-abandoned and the land was left unusable
Kikuyu grievences
-treatment by white settlers (being pushed out of fertile ‘white’ highlands) let to resentment
Mau Mau uprising
-1952-1856
-100k Mau Mau took blood oath
-1952 declaration of emergency: Kenyatta arrested
-80k ppl detained in concentration camos
-1000 Mau Mau executed
Kenyan independence
-1960 elections gave Africans a majority
-Kenyatta led country to independence
-Independent 1963
Tanganyika & Uganda
-Tanganyika= 1959 Tanganyikan African Nationalist Union, threatened strikes etc. Independent as Tanzania in 1961
-Uganda= serious tribal divisions (ungovernable). Independent 1962
South Africa
-1948 Afrikaner Nationalist Party implemented apartheid
-African Nationalist Congress opposed
-Sharpeville massacre 1960, 69 protestors killed by police
-Br disagreed/ publicly opposed apartheid in Macmillan’s ‘wind of change’ speech 1960
Central African Federation
-1953
-inc nyasaland, S & N Rhodesia
-discriminatory legislation vetoed by Br
-disscolved 1963
Southern Rhodesia
-1961 white population supported Rhodesian Front Party (independence under white rule)
-1965 PM Ian Smith illegally declared independence
-Br didn’t recognise this, 1969 Rhodesia became a republic and entered a civil war between whites
Burma
-1947 talks w/ Aung San led to elections to a constituent assembly 1948
-AFPFL divided
-Aung San assassinated
-Independent 1948
Malaya
-UMNO (Malay representation)
-MCA & MCP (Chinese representation)
-1945-8 strikes by Chinese
-1947 Malay citizenship discriminated against
Malay Union
-1947 ethnic tensions prevented it
federation of malaya
-1948
-executive council= 7 official & 7 unofficial representatives
-legislative council= 62 representatives elected 1955
Malayan emergency
-1948-60
-concerns abt communist attacks on rubber plantations
-Henry Gurney assassinated, 6.5k communists dead
-new villages= 1950, relocate 500k squatters from jungle
Malayan & Chinese unification
-1952-54 Malay and Chinese unite and win 81% in 1955 election
Reid Commission
-1955 drew up democratic constitution
-1957 Malaya independent but remained in sterling area w. Br influence
Malaysia
-1963
-Malaya, Singapore etc joined to form Malaysia
-1965 Singapore left Malaysian Union
Singapore
-1947/8 own executive/ legislative councils but only 6/25 seats elected
Rendell Constitution
-1955
-Singapore
-25/32 elected seats
Singapore independence
-1957 full internal self govt
-1959 Lee Kuan Yew (PAP) came to power
-1962 join federation of Malaya but race riots made them leave
-1965 independent
