POLS 3000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sub-Saharan Africa, Tonic Water, Basil Davidson
5 Oct 2016
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African states that were not colonized by europeans: liberia, ethiopia. 1884-1885 was when colonization of africa began, with the exception of the portuguese colonies. Colonization is conquering, controlling, dominating or settling another territory by a distant state. Sub-saharan africa was the las great region to be dominated by europeans. Notable notes about africa"s colonization: most of latin america was colonized by 1570 and had gained its independence by the early 19th century. African colonization comes 50 years after they all gain independence in latin. Scramble for africa begins: while colonization in latin america lasted over 250 years, colonization in africa only lasted 76 years. By the year 2036 africa will have been free longer than it was colonized: while the effects of european contact were and are significant, the experience widely varied. Slave trade, africans taken from the continent (15 million to the caribbean/ Colonial presence in somalia was relatively small, but in congo and portuguese.
