Decolonization In Africa

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Decolonization In Africa

• European Reluctance

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Essential Questions

• Why were the Europeans more reluctant to
  decolonize Africa than other places?
• Why some parts of Africa and not others?

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European Reluctance

• Reluctant to lose resources
• Imperialist view of Africans
• White superiority
• African inability to govern themselves
• How did imperialism affect this?

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DecolonizationTime Line
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French Colonies

• France in Africa
• Most of North Africa
• Released most colonies without conflict
• Not Algeria

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Algeria

• Algeria
• Large French population
• Large Muslim population
• War to protect French nationals 1958
• 1 M French soldiers
• Algerian independence
• 1962

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Black African Nationalism

• Black Nationalists
• Supported lead by European educated Africans

Kwame Nkrumah
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African Independence

• Delayed independence
• European supremacy?
• Africans incapable?
• White settler opposition
• Anti-communists campaigns of Cold War
• Economic political instability

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Black African Nationalism

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Sub-Saharan IndependenceBritish

• Ghana 1957
• Kwame Nkrumah
• Leader against British
• Success in 1957

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Sub-Saharan IndependenceBritish

• Kenya 1963
• Mau Mau Uprising 1955
• Violent campaign against
  European settlers
• British gain U.S. support against Mau Mau
• Claim they are communist subversives
• Not communist nationalist

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Mau Mau
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Enduring Questions

• How has European imperialism manifested long-term
  problems for African independence?
• What outcomes?
• What possible solutions?