1. The Impact on African Life
Colonialism
The Impact on African Life

2. Standard
SS7H1 The student will analyze continuity and change in Africa leading to the 21st century.
a. Explain how the European partitioning across Africa contributed to conflict, civil war, and artificial political boundaries.

3. Africa Before the Europeans
Varied lives and governments
Emperors
Democratic like
Various cultures

4. The Slave Trade Slavery existed in Africa before the Europeans
Servants, soldiers, farm workers
Village raids were done for slaves
15th century Europeans began selling slaves
Captured from villages
Given by warring tribes
Estimations – million slaves sent to the Americas

5. Villages and towns destroyed
2/3 were young strong men (18-30 yrs)
Devastated family structures
Mid-1700’s – movements to stop slavery
By 1808, U.S., G.B., and Denmark outlawed the slave trade

6. Circle of Slave Trade Africans captured and shipped to Americas
Colonies gathered raw materials for mother country – shipped to Europe
Europeans produced goods with materials – shipped goods around the world

8. European Colonialism
Africa seen as a source of raw materials and new markets
Scientist and explorers were curious about the animals and resources
Missionaries interested in African souls
Religion, education, medicine
European way of thinking destroyed many cultures/traditions

10. Several European nations competed over territory in Africa
Wanted biggest, richest colonies
Control of trade
European & U.S. leaders met in Berlin
1884 – discussed how to divide Africa
1912 – only Ethiopia and Liberia were independent
Belgium, Italy, France, U.K., Germany, Spain, Portugal, and Ottoman Empire had colonies

12. Impact of Colonial Rule
Wanted to make Africans like Europeans
Did not understand the rich African culture
Made conflicts worse
Hutu – Tutsi (Rwanda-Burundi)
Belgians treated Tutsi better
Violence broke out in 1994
Tutsi formed new government in Rwanda

13. How is this political cartoon depicting European colonialism?