European Explorers in Africa 19 th century  Europeans Map the Interior of Africa.

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European Explorers in Africa 19 th century  Europeans Map the Interior of Africa

Dr. Livingstone: Missionary and Explorer Dr. David Livingstone Sir Henry Morton Stanley

Ending the Slave Trade The suppression of the slave trade also helped to spread Western cultural influences in West Africa. Missionaries converted and founded schools for the “recaptives” whom the British settled in Sierra Leone. Black Americans brought Western culture to Liberia and to other parts of Africa before and after Emancipation in the United States.

Social Darwinist views promoted.

Berlin Conference of The “Scramble for Africa” German chancellor Bismarck called the Berlin Conference in 1885 and 1886 in order to lay out the framework under which Africa would be occupied by the European nations

Africa 1890

Africa in 1914

Egypt The Egyptians carried out modernization projects in the mid-nineteenth century under Muhammad Ali (r. 1805–1848) ; financed with loans from European banks. French and British bankers lobbied their governments to intervene in Egypt in order to secure their loans. In 1882 the British sent an army into Egypt and ruled indirectly for seventy years. The British developed Egyptian agriculture, especially cotton production, by building a dam across the Nile. The economic development of Egypt benefited a small elite of landowners and merchants, and it was accompanied by the introduction of Western ways that conflicted with the teachings of Islam.

French in Africa In 1830 France invaded Algeria; it took the French eighteen years to defeat Algerian resistance organized by Muslims. In West Africa, the French built a railroad from the upper Senegal River to the upper Niger in order to open the interior to French merchants France claimed the area on the northern bank of the Congo.

Belgians in the Congo In the Congo Basin, King Leopold II of Belgium claimed the area south of the Congo River. The regime, under Leopold's unrestrained personal control, became notorious for its treatment of the Congolese. Forced labor was used to gather wild rubber, palm oil, and ivory. Beatings and lashings, as well as the taking of hostages, were used to force villages to meet their rubber-gathering quotas, as was the taking of hostages. Brutality was widespread in mines and on plantations. The population of the entire state declined from some 20 million to 8 million. Britain forced Leopold to transfer his authority in the Congo to the Belgian government.

Punishing “Lazy” Workers

The British Takeover of Southern Africa The Cape Colony was valuable to Britain because of its strategic importance as a supply station on the route to India. In response to British pressure the descendants of earlier Dutch settlers (the Afrikaners) embarked on a “Great Trek” to found new colonies on the fertile high veld (grassland) that had been depopulated by the Zulu wars.

The Great Trek, Afrikaners

British Expansion from South Africa The discovery of diamonds at Kimberley in 1868 attracted European prospectors and Africans It also set off the process by which the British Cape Colony expanded, annexing Kimberley and defeating the Xhosa and the Zulu. British control over South Africa was consolidated when Britain defeated the Afrikaners in the South African War or Boer War (1899–1902). In 1910 the European settlers created the Union of South Africa, in which the Afrikaners emerged as the ruling class in a government that assigned Africans to reservations and established a system of racial segregation.

Diamond Mines Raw Diamonds

The Boer War The Boers The British

A Future British Prime Minister British Boer War Correspondent, Winston Churchill

Cecil Rhodes ( ) “The Colossus of Rhodes” Cecil Rhodes used his British South Africa Company to take over land in central Africa He created the colonies of Southern Rhodesia and Northern Rhodesia.

Political Consequences Africa at the time of the European invasion contained a variety of societies which responded differently to the European invasion: –some welcomed the Europeans as allies against local enemies –others resisted European rule. Pastoral and warrior states like the Zulu resisted European invasion, as did some commercial states like the kingdom of Asante and Benin. Ethiopia successfully defended itself against an Italian invasion in 1896.

Economic Consequences Most Africans simply tried to continue living as before, but colonial policies made this difficult. Colonial emphasis on the production of cash crops, the assignment of land to European companies and planters, and the imposition of hut taxes or head taxes proved highly disruptive. The need to pay taxes in cash forced African men to take low-paid jobs and to migrate to the cities and mining camps in search of work

Social Consequences Some African women welcomed colonial rule because it put an end to fighting and slave trading Most women benefited less than men did. Women’s property rights were undermined by colonial policies that assigned property rights to the head of the household (the man).

Cultural Responses Missionaries taught both practical skills (crafts and domestic skills) and western ideas. Africans educated in mission schools found that Christian ideals clashed with the reality of colonial exploitation; they used these Christian ideals to critique colonialism. Colonialism contributed to the diffusion of Islam by building cities, increasing trade, and allowing Muslims to settle in new areas.