EUROPEAN IMPERIALISM
IN AFRICA
2 ND P H A S E O F E U R O P E A N C O N T A C T W I T H A F R I C A
EXPLORES SET UP TREATIES WITH AFRICAN
KINGDOMS
WHICH LED TO COLONIZATION IN AFRICA
• For Europeans, these
treaties meant that
Africans had signed
away their
sovereignties (rights);
• but for Africans, the
treaties were merely
diplomatic and
commercial
friendship treaties.
• Cartoon depicting
the Berlin
Conference.
STANLEY EXPLORED CONGO FOR KING
LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM
EUROPEANS QUICKLY FOLLOW KING LEOPOLD…BERLIN
CONFERENCE
THE BERLIN CONFERENCE OF 1884 REGULATED EUROPEAN
COLONIZATION AND TRADE IN AFRICA.
FIGHT AGAINST COLONIALISM
• After discovering that
they had in effect
been defrauded by
the European powers
• African rulers
organized militarily to
resist the seizure of
their lands and the
imposition of colonial
domination.
CHANCELLOR OF GERMAN EMPIRE
OTTO VAN BISMARK
1600S DUTCH AND THEN THE BRITISH
TAKE OVER (BOER WAR)
CECIL RHODES- ARDENT BELIEVER IN BRITISH
COLONIALISM, RHODES WAS THE FOUNDER OF THE
SOUTHERN AFRICAN TERRITORY OF RHODESIA.
TECHNOLOGY GAVE EUROPEANS
ADVANTAGE - MEDICINE & GUNS
New Maxim Gun
Medicine to protect against
Disease.
AGE OF IMPERIALISM
1850-1919, DIRECT & INDIRECT
ETHIOPIA & LIBERIA WERE
NOT COLONIZED