Please read Things Fall Apart for Monday, SHORT for Wednesday, and AFRICANS for Friday. Anticipate a pop quiz this week. The Annotated Bibliography is due Friday. You can find the handout for the assignment on the Campus Portal. Please submit through TurnItIn.com.
Reading Questions for SHORT, Chapter 5:
- How was colonial rule in Africa different from colonial rule in Latin America?
- How has the study of the colonial period changed?
- What are the "key facts" about European conquest?
- Who resisted the Europeans? (see alsoAFRICANS, p. 201)
- What/who facilitated the conquest?
- What's special about Ethiopia?
- What was the Maji Maji rebellion? (see also AFRICANS, p. 202)
- The "first successful human rights campaign of the 20th century" targeted what?
- What impact did WW I have?
- How did French and British approaches to controlling colonies differ?
- Why did some Africans embrace colonialism?
- How did Europeans run Africa "on the cheap"?
- What caused widespread social change? (p. 106)
- Define "ornamentalism."
- What explains, in part, the political authoritarianism of contemporary Africa?
- How did Britain manipulate other European countries (p. 196) and interests (p. 197) in Africa?
- What brought about the Anglo-Boer War and what were its outcomes and costs?
- Who made up most colonial armies? (p. 199)
- What was more burdensome than taxes?
- Who were the most powerful Africans in colonial Africa? (pp. 205f)
- What did European governments handle and what did they leave to private enterprise? (p. 209)
- Which region experienced the most brutal exploitation and why?
- What effect did railroad building have?
- Why was famine such an issue during the early colonial period?
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