Colonial Africa

Study Questions-Lecture

1.Why did direct European colonial rule appear earlier in the Cape Colony and Algeria than in other parts of Africa?

2. Study Questions-Reading

The Earth and Its Peoples, pp. 649-56, 731-9
1. How did Egypt and Ethiopia try to modernize early in the 19th century? (Ch. 26)
2. What was the scramble for Africa? What medical and technical advances made it possible?
3. Why was Ethiopia able to resist colonization, but Egypt was not? (Ch. 29)
4. How was African society affected by colonization?

Human Record
"Standard Treaty," pp. 313-4
1. What benefits did African chiefs hope to gain by signing this type of treaty?
2. What does the treaty indicate about the motives of the British in Africa?

Ndasi Kumalo, "His Story," pp. 315-8
1. How did the British succeed in subjugating the Ndebele?
2. According to Ndasi, why was the arrival of the Europeans a mixed blessing? Do you agree with him?