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Nationalist Movements in Africa. Target. Interpreting the Visual Record Why did the French want to control this region of Africa? . A French colonist directs African workers on a rubber plantation in French Equatorial Africa in the 1940s. Target. Interpreting the Visual Record
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Target Interpreting the Visual Record • Why did the French want to control this region of Africa? A French colonist directs African workers on a rubber plantation in French Equatorial Africa in the 1940s.
Target Interpreting the Visual Record • Why did the French want to control this region of Africa? • Answer: To control the region’s resources such as rubber. A French colonist directs African workers on a rubber plantation in French Equatorial Africa in the 1940s.
Key Terms and PlacesNationalist Movementsin Africa • boycott (pp. 196 & 310) – Refuse to buy. • apartheid (pp. 196 & 278) – The South African government policy of separation of races, which began to disappear in the 1980’s. • Nelson Mandela (p. 196) – This man was imprisoned for 26 years. He was then freed from prison and elected the first black President of South Africa. • Wole Soyinka (p. 197) – This man was a Nigerian writer, poet, and playwright who won awards for his stories about African life, music, and art.