Modern Africa: A Social and Political History

Abstract

Part 1 Under foreign flags - 1914-1930: the heritage and history - World War I, partition of Africa colonial Africa to 1930, military to civilian rule, economic consequences, export crops and food African responses to 1930 - early attempts at national liberation, independent churches and religious protest movements, new social groups key ideas for progress - The Pan-African movement, founders of modern nationalism - West Africa, the African voice in South Africa, North Africa - Islam and nationalism resistance and adjustment. Part 2 Colonialism under strain - 1930-1940: colonial systems and the Great Depression World War II 1939-1945 towards modern politics colonialism in crisis agencies of modernizing change 1930-1945. Part 3 The nationalists win through: the conditions of decolonization raising national flags - north-east Africa - Egypt from the Wafd to Nasser, Sudan, Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea Libya and the Maghrib - Tunisia and Morocco, Algeria south of the Sahara - French colonies British West Africa - Nigeria, Gold coast upheavals - Ghana takes shape, Siera Leone and The Gambia east and central Africa - British settler colonies - Tanganyika and Zanzibaf (Tanzania), rivalries in Uganda, Kenya, Central Africa, Malawi and Zamibia, Rhodesia in other empires - Belgian, Portuguese, Spanish the 1980s - unfinished business - South Africa - new racist plans, the struggles in Namibia the struggles for independence. Part 4 New nations - progress and problems: history begins anew - a revolution in education, new artists, new arts, jouralism, business expansion, the gains of independence questions about national stability questions about development - the economic legacy, population growth and movement, export crops or food?, national planning and infrastructure questions about unity - Pan-Africanism and the OAU overview - experiements and lessons.