NEW150Y1 Lecture Notes - Kwame Nkrumah, Jomo Kenyatta, Gamal Abdel Nasser
Document Summary
Lecture 11: the formation of the african state system. Decolonization: first wave of decolonization was an intellectual revolution. There were demonstrations and publications that made the arguments for decolonization. There were few settler states except for kenya and algeria. There was a mix of arms struggle and intellectual struggles. The arms struggles were mostly in the settler states: the third wave started from 1975 to 2011(south sudan). Warfare was the major instruments for the colonization process. There were a large number of settler states. The settlers didn"t want the colonizers to leave. Africans forced the settles for incorporation into the political arrangements. Settlers: the international pressures ended up crippling the development of african states, there was a demystification of the idea of european superiority. The pillars built on myths and legends crumbled. This was influenced by the second world war were africans participated and saw europeans die on the battlefield.
