AFRICAN INDEPENDENCE

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AFRICAN INDEPENDENCE
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Kwame Nkrumah

• First sub-Saharan African country to be granted
  independence 1957
• Why here?

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Jomo Kenyatta

• Mau-Mau Rebellion
• British concentration camps
• Kenya granted independence 1964

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Congo

• Patrice Lumumba
• Joseph Mobutu

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IDI AMIN

• Uganda dictator
• Known for brutality may have been responsible
  for deaths of 300,000 people

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Different Models of Economic Development

• Socialist/Communist
• Julius Nyrere - Tanzania

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Models, contd.

• Felix Houphuet-Boigny Ivory Coast
• Capitalism based on exports

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Barriers to Development

• Colonialisms legacy
• Dictatorship/corruption kleptocracies
• Civil War/ethnic violence
• Cold War proxy wars
• Poverty/underdevelopment
• Lack of education
• Decline of traditions/urbanization and migration

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South Africa the exception?