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Colonization and Independence in Africa

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Part I: Africa and the Imposition of Colonialism

What is colonialism?
Why did European countries divide Africa into regions of influence in the 1880s?
How did Europeans use the idea of race to justify colonialism?
What methods did Europeans use to subjugate African colonies?

Part II: African Resistance Grows

What was the Pan-African movement?
How did Africans begin to resist colonialism?

Case Studies

Why is it important for high school students to learn about Algeria?
Why did France colonize Algeria?
What methods did France use to rule Algeria?
How did colonialism affect different people in Algeria?
How did people in Algeria respond to colonialism?
What role did race play in France’s treatment of Algerians?
What was the Algerian War of Independence?
What led to decolonization in Algeria?

Epilogue: African Independence

What is decolonization?

Lesson: The Political Geography of Africa

Reading maps: How to analyze a map
What is colonialism?
Why did European countries divide Africa into regions of influence in the 1880s?

Lesson: Kikuyu Fable: A Tale of Resistance

What methods did Europeans use to subjugate African colonies?
How did Africans begin to resist colonialism?

Lesson: The All-African People's Conference, 1958

What was the Pan-African movement?
What were some challenges that the newly independent African states faced?
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