I' Early European contact

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• I. Early European contact
• Coastal trade
• Portuguese, Dutch

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• Slave trade source areas, mortality
• C. Impact on Africa

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• II. European colonialism
• Berlin Conference
• (1884)
• B. Why colonies?

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C. Different countries/ different policies 1.
British indirect rule 2. French
acculturation 3. Portugal, Belgium exploitation
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remain out of reach. If I could, I would annex
other planets Cecil Rhodes
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• Impact of colonialism
• Limited industrialization
• Small, land-locked states
• Civil unrest
• Infrastructure oriented toward exports
• Neocolonialism

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• REGIONS
• West
• Demographics pop growth
• Economy / resources
• Oil relative scarcity

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• Religious conflict African transition zone
• Modern slave trade

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• East
• Physical
• Economy
• Hunger
• Civil unrest - Darfur

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• Equatorial
• Physical
• Economy blood diamonds
• Medical issues
• Endemic, epidemic, pandemic
• Why disease so prevalent here?
• Malaria, sleeping sickness, AIDS

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D. Civil unrest / blood diamonds
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• South
• Physical
• Economy
• Racial tension
• South Africa (Apartheid)
• Zimbabwe (Rhodesia)