Effects of Post/Colonialism in Africa

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Effects of Post/Colonialism in Africa
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Effects of Colonialism in Africa

• Genocide
• When was this term created?

• The systematic extermination of a group of people
  on the basis of a defining characteristic.
• Term was created after the Holocaust in 1948.
  Used so the world can identify and stop horrific
  acts

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Effects of Colonialism in Africa

• Examples of genocide

• -killing members of the group
• -causing serious bodily or mental harm
• -creating living conditions to destroy
• -imposing measures to prevent the birth
• -forcibly transferring children of the group to
  another group

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Effects of Colonialism in Africa

• Refugee
• 33 million

• Someone who has left their country because of
  political or environmental reasons and have
  crossed an international border.
• The number of refugees in the world.

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Effects of Colonialism in Africa

• Internally Displaced Person (IDP)
• What type of protection do each receive?

• Someone that has been forced to move like a
  refugee but has stayed within the country.
• Refugees are protected by international law, but
  IDPs are under the protection of local
  authorities.

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Effects of Colonialism in Africa

• What are the consequences?

• Malnutrition
• Water
• Disease
• Most of which are curable such as the measles
• Rape
• Used as a weapon of war and ethnic cleansing

IDP Women in India and Central African Republic
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Effects of Colonialism in Africa

• What are some of the mental consequences?

• Loss of privacy and decency
• Inability to support themselves
• Focused on day to day survival

Young girl collecting firewood
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Effects of Colonialism in Africa

• What are the living conditions?

• Overcrowded
• Causing people to fight over resources
• Crowded living space causes fires to easily
  spread in the camps

Fire in Uganda IDP camp
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Uganda

• Civil War
• Why do people fight in Civil Wars?

• A type of war where people of the same political
  boundary (country) fight
• Territory
• Power
• Money
• Cultural differences

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Uganda

• Rebel
• Lords Resistance Army

• Term given to individuals that attack the
  government
• Known as the LRA, this rebel group is fighting
  the Uganda government

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Uganda

• Night commute

• When young Rwandan children go to shelters to be
  protected from abduction