1. Imperialism: Good or Bad

2. The Good Education Improves ◦Ndansi Kumalo, an African warrior in the British Matabele War said “the Government has arranged for education and through that, when our children grow up, they may rise in status” Industrialization Comes to Africa ◦Kumalo said, “they brought us European implements plows; we can buy European clothes, which are an advance” The Creation of Infrastructure (long-term benefit) Sewage systems, railroads, and mail delivery systems were brought to Africa-- revolutionizing sanitation, travel, and communication European Wealth??

3. The Bad Food Scarcity ◦“All the best land has been taken by the white people. We get hardly any price for our cattle; we find it hard to meet our money obligations. If we have crops to spare, we get very little for them… When we have plenty of grain the prices are very low, but the moment we are short of grain and we have to buy from Europeans at once the price is high” Taxes ◦“The government said, ‘You must contribute more; you must pay £1.’ We did so. Then those who took more than one wife were taxed… that is not all. We are also taxed for our dogs… then we were told we were living on private land; the owners wanted rent in addition to the government tax…If we do raise anything, it is never our own: all, or most of it, goes back in taxation” Africans subject to abuse/brutality (inferior) ◦Africans were “the most despicable specimens of human beings.” ◦“We were treated like slaves… the treatment we received was intolerable. We said, ‘It is no good living under such conditions; death would be better— let us fight’” War (The Boer War)

4. Long-Term Impact Aparteid (in S. Africa until the 1990’s) Arbitrary Boundaries Dividing Africa (Caused Tribal Conflict) Gap Between Rich and Poor ($30,000 earnings gap between whites and blacks) Christianity is the Major Religion (vanishing cultures) Civil War in Africa (Zimbabwe, Sudan, Congo..)