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African Independence Economic Development in Reverse?

African Independence Economic Development in Reverse?. Newly Independent States, Asia and Africa, 1947–1990. I. Motifs. A. Colonial Powers: Belgium, France, Great Britain, Portugal B. Leaders of Newly Independent Countries who were formerly in prison under colonial rule

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African Independence Economic Development in Reverse?

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  1. African IndependenceEconomic Development in Reverse?

  2. Newly Independent States, Asia and Africa, 1947–1990

  3. I. Motifs • A. Colonial Powers: Belgium, France, Great Britain, Portugal • B. Leaders of Newly Independent Countries who were formerly in prison under colonial rule • C. Main Settler Colonies • 1. Algeria 3. Rhodesia • 2. Kenya 4. South Africa

  4. Newly Independent StatesAfrica, 1951–1990

  5. Demographic Overview, 1880–1975

  6. I. Motifs (continued) • D. Main Oil-Producing Countries • 1. Algeria 4. Gabon • 2. Angola 5. Libya • 3. Egypt 6. Nigeria

  7. II. Case Studies • A. Ghana (formerly the Gold Coast) • 1. Personages • a. Kwame Nkrumah (1909–72), Prime Minister, 1957–60; President 1960–66 • 2. Products: cacao, gold, timber • 3. Projects • a. Akosombo Dam • b. Valco Aluminum Works

  8. West Africa

  9. Ghana Satellite Image

  10. Akosombo Dam, view from the Volta Hotel

  11. Akosombo hydroelectric plant on Lake Volta

  12. Ghana Relief Map

  13. Ghana Regions

  14. Kwame Nkrumah and Martin Luther King, Jr., 1957

  15. II. Case Studies • B. Kenya • 1. Peoples • a. Kikuyu c. Meru e. Luo g. Kamba • b. Embu d. Luhya f. Kalenjin h. Kisii • 2. Personages • a. Jomo Kenyatta (ca. 1894–1978), Prime Minister, then President, 1963–1978 • Makers: – Kenyatta, Suffering without Bitterness (Kapenguria trial) • – Barnett and Njama, Mau Mau from Within (Mau Mau rituals) • – Jeremy Murray-Brown, Kenyatta (rush to judgment)

  16. II. Case Studies • B. Kenya • 3. Terms: uhuru (freedom); Mau Mau • 4. Organizations • a. Kenya African Union • b. “Land and Freedom”

  17. Kenya Relief Map

  18. Kenya Satellite Image

  19. Kenya Dialect Map

  20. Jomo Kenyatta (ca. 1894–1978)Prime Minister, then President, 1963–1978

  21. II. Case Studies • C. Algeria • 1. Personages • a. Ahmed Ben Bella (1916– ), Premier, 1962–63, President, 1963–1965 • b. Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970). President of France 1958–1969 • 2. Organization: FLN (Front of National Liberation)

  22. Ahmed Ben Bella (1919– ), Premier, 1962–63, President, 1963–65

  23. II. Case Studies • D. Democratic Republic of Congo • (formerly Zaire; formerly Belgian Congo) • (Note: not to be confused with Republic of Congo) • 1. Personages • a. Patrice Lumumba (1925–1961), Prime Minister, 1960–61 • b. Joseph Kasavubu (ca. 1917–1969), President, 1960–1965 • c. “Joseph” Mobutu Sese Seko (1930–1997), ruler 1965–1997 • d. Dag Hammarskjold (1905–1961), UN Secretary-General, 1953–1961

  24. II. Case Studies • E. Nigeria • 1. Peoples • a. Hausa (in the north) • b. Ibo (in the east) > Biafra • c. Yoruba (in the west)

  25. Nigeria

  26. II. Case Studies • F. Mozambique • 1. Organization: FRELIMO (Mozambique Front of Liberation)

  27. II. Case Studies • G. Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia; formerly Southern Rhodesia) • 1. Personages • a. Ian Smith (1919–2007), Prime Minister 1964–1979 • b. Robert Mugabe (1924– ), Prime Minister, 1980– • 2. Organizations • a. Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU) • b. Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) • 3. Term: Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI)

  28. Zimbabwe Regions

  29. Zimbabwe Satellite Image

  30. Ian Smith (1919– ) Prime Minister 1964–1979

  31. Robert Mugabe and Canaan Banana

  32. Idi Amin Dada (1925–2003) • President of Uganda, 1971–1979 • – killed 300,000 to 500,000 Ugandans • –Chairman of the Organization of African Unity 1975–1976 • –Entebbe Raid • – In 1973, U.S. Ambassador Thomas Patrick Melady •   recommended that the United States reduce its presence in Uganda. Melady described Amin’s regime as “racist, erratic and unpredictable, brutal, inept, bellicose, irrational, ridiculous, and militaristic.” • –1979, Amin fled to Libya, then Saudi Arabia

  33. Idi Amin Dada (1925–2003)

  34. http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1693617408/tt0455590

  35. II. Case Studies • H. South Africa • 1. Personages • a. P[ietre] W[illem] Botha (1916–2006 ) • Prime Minister, 1978–1984; President 1984–1989 • b. F[rederik] W[illem] de Klerk (1936– ) • Prime Minister, 1989–1994 • c. Nelson Mandela (1918– ), President, 1994–1999 • Makers: • – Mandela, The Struggle Is My Life (decision to continue • underground work) • – Jacques Derrida, “The Laws in Reflection” (Admirable Mandela) • – Sheridan Johns and R. Hunt Davis Jr., Mandela, Tambo, and the African National Congress (Mandela in the 1990s)

  36. South Africa and Black Homelands, 1960s

  37. P[ietre] W[illem] Botha (1916– ), Prime Minister, 1978–84; President 1984–89

  38. F[rederik] W[illem] de Klerk (1936– ), Prime Minister, 1989–1994

  39. The Young Nelson Mandela

  40. Nelson Mandela (1918– ), President, 1994–1999. Photo from 2008.

  41. II. Case Studies • H. South Africa • 1. Personages (continued) • d. Oliver Tambo (1917–1993) • President of ANC, 1967–1991 • e. Bishop Desmond Tutu (1931– ) • (1) archbishop of Capetown (1986–1996) • (2) Nobel Peace Prize • - civil rights for all • - common system of education • - abolition of internal passports • - cessation of deportation to “homelands”

  42. Bishop Desmond Tutu (1931– )

  43. II. Case Studies • H. South Africa • 2. Terms: • a. Apartheid c. “Bantu” • b. Afrikaaner d. “Truth and Reconciliation” • 3. Organization: African National Congress (ANC)

  44. II. Case Studies • H. South Africa (continued) • 4. Events • a. Sharpeville Massacre (1960) • b. Rivonia Trial (1964) • c. Overthrow of Portuguese colonial rule in Mozambique and Angola (1975) • d. Defeat of South African forces in Angola (1976) • e. Soweto School Boycott (1976)

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