POL301Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: African Nationalism, Class Conflict, Cecil Rhodes
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Vasca de gama was the founder of africa: it means liberation struggles involved armed struggle: bloodshed and maoist insurgences of the cold war. Africa settler) , south africa (settler), zimbabwe (british settler): the small portuguese colony of guinea-bissau and cape verde in west africa, for many years, the white settlers in these colonies had the right to vote. They used this vote to elect representatives who pressed laws that protected the power of the european settlers and discriminate against africans: african nationalist leaders believed that if franchise was the righ of all, late decolonization. Guinea-bissau 1984: colonies of settlement in africa, ex. Zimbabwe and kenya: the 1950s, the kenyan path to independence did not go as smoothly as it did in. Ghana or in tanzania: settlement colonies needed armed struggle for colonialist to give up power. France saw algeria as part of france. The colonial government of kenya refused to accept that the mau mau was a political movement.
