1. The Partition of Africa
9.2 Notes

2. Africa in the Early 1800’s Africa is 3x size of Europe
People speak 100’s of languages
Varied governments and ways of life
Islam was a strong force in much of the continent

3. II. European Contact Increases
Explorers map Africa’s interior
Missionaries follow explorers
Built churches, schools and hospitals
Paternalistic view- seeing Africans as children

4. III. A Scramble for Colonies
King Leopold II of Belgium hired Henry Stanley arrange trade treaties with the Congo
This set off a scramble for Africa
Berlin Conference-
No Africans invited
About rules on colonizing Africa
Had to set up a government office there
Next 20 years Africa almost all split up by Europeans
Leopold II

5. The New Imperialism: Section 2
The Scramble for Africa

6. III. A Scramble for Colonies cont.
Horrors in Congo-
Belgian overseers brutalize villagers
Force them to work for nothing
France Extends Influence
Took Algeria and West Africa
Britain
Took large but scattered portions
Fought the Boers in a guerilla war

7. IV. Africans Resist Imperialism
Africans fought back in a series of bloody wars
Samori Toure fought the French
Ethiopia managed to resist colonization
Menelik II King of Ethiopia managed to modernize his country
Italy was defeated when they invaded
Samori Toure
Menelik II

8. Questions What set off the scramble for Africa?
Why do you think Africans were not invited to the Berlin Conference?
How did Menilik II preserve Etheopian Independence?
How might the division of Africa by the Europeans affect Africa? What if it was Europe that was randomly divided what problems might there be?