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| infrastructure | the fundamental facilities and systems serving a country, city, or area, as transportation and communication systems, power plants, and schools. |
| imperialism/colonialism | when a stronger country controls the politics or economics of a weaker area; the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies.; the control or governing influence of a nation over a dependent country, territory, or people. |
| abolition | a meeting to end slavery; the legal prohibition and ending of slavery, esp. of slavery of blacks in the U.S.; the state of being abolished; annulment; abrogation |
| diaspora | the scattering of something or someone (people) |
| 1400's | europeans came to Africa because the heard stories of gold filled cities in Africa. They were also searching for a sea route to India. |
| 1800's | europeans came to Africa because they competed with other countries for raw materials for their factories. They colonized Africa. |
| raw materials | cotton, palm oil, wood, and rubber |
| 1884-Berlin Conference | no Africans in attendance; dived africa into colonies ignoring how africa was already divided. |
| African Colonies win Independence | When: 1960 post world war 11 How: Some were peaceful, others were not; demonstrations, fighting, and violence (Algeria) Then What: civil wars between ethnic groups, people unprepared for political+economic life, corrupt dictators and military rule, lingering anger, resentment towards europeans (whites) |
| pan-africanism | nationalist movement that began in the early 1900's which called for unifying all of Africa |
| Kwame kkrumah | a leader that lead the gold coast (Ghana) to independence |
| effects of colonial rule on African Nations | 1. Africans were not prepared to rule themselves forthey did not have experienced leaders 2. there were many rival groups that could not get along 3.many nations could not meet the economic needs oftheir people because they no longer could rely on their previous economic traditions |
| changes of African economy brought by european colonialism | introduced money economy, Africans sold their labor in mines and plantations, taxes had to be paid in cash, trade was replaced, new dependence on foreign plants/products-food etc., money needed to but these wares, Africans who were farmers grew cash crops, Some africans who got a european education started independence movements |
| "Never Again" | -after nazi holocaust of the jews -but it happened again in Rwanda |
| Tutsi and Hutu | before 1959- tutsi were oppressers treating Hutus like servants/serfs 1959- Hutus liberated themselves way before 1959- Hutus existed bfore tusis, Hutus-were farmers Tutsis-were nomads with their cattle |
| 1994 | Rwandan genocide |
| 1939-1945 | World War 11 |
| Liberia | founded by free slaves declared intself independent in 1847 |
| Ethiopia | never been colonized by europeans |
| Egypt | achieved independence in 1922 |
| Darfur | 200,000 people killed and 2.5 million people made refugees in darfur since 2003 |
| janjaweed | armed men on horseback |
