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... Geography
..... geographical zones : Sahara, Sahel, tropical rainforest, Great Lakes Region & Rift Valley, Kalahari & Namib, southern Africa (see map)
..... Nile, Niger, Congo, Zambezi, Madagascar, Cape of Good Hope
..... Tsetse fly (see map
..... cities : Cape Town, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Daressalaam, Nairobi, Addis Ababa, Lagos, Dakar, Khartoum, Djibouti (see map )
..... countries (see map)

... Out of Africa theory
... Early Afr. civilizations : Nubia, Axum, in contact w. Egypt, Arabia
... Nok culture, developed iron-smelting technique c. 500 B.C. (Nigeria)
..... Sahel states : Ghana, Mali, Funj, Zealot Muslim states fighting the Jihad against infidels : Futa Djalon, Sokoto; Non-Muslim states : Ashanti Federation, Buganda, Mwanamutapa, Zulu Kgd., Matabele; Arab trade Emporium on East coast : Zanzibar

... Abyssinia christian since 4th c.
... East African coast in trade connection with Middle East : Kilwa, Zanzibar

... Middle Ages
..... Mali, Songhai, Bornu-Kanem - Sahel states depending on trans-Saharan trade
..... Mali rich of gold, report on the Mali-Moroccan gold trade triggers Portuguese discoveries
..... trans-Saharan trade later focuses on slave trade

... Early Colonialism
..... Europeans interested in coastal trade - Gold Coast, Ivory Coast, Pepper Coast, Slave Coast
..... transatlantic slave trade, supplies Caribbean sugar plantations with African slaves
..... the Dutch settle the Cape (1652) to provide ships sailing to and from China/India with fresh produce
..... Africa trade increasingly focusses on slave trade, the most profitable 'commodity'. Europeans provide coastal Africans with arms, they raid their neighbours - slave trade deteriorating African societies.

... Early 19th century
..... British outlaw slave trade (1807); settlements to settle freed slaves established : Freetown (Sierra Leone, Brit.), Libreville (Gabon, Fr.), Liberia (US)
..... Africa trade decreases in volume; Danes and Dutch (1872) give up possessions on Gold Coast (unprofitable)

... High Imperialism (see map 1 : Africa 1913 and map 2 : Africa 1930
..... Opening of Suez Canal 1869
..... King Leopold and the Congo Free State
..... Diamond and Gold Rush in South Africa
..... Berlin Conference, Scramble for Africa
..... Anglo-French Confrontation : Cape to Cairo / Dakar-Djibouti, Fashoda Crisis
..... Boer War
..... Congo Question
..... Moroccan Crises
..... World War I in Africa

... Colonial economy : monoculture plantations, mines, export-oriented, based on cheap labour
... Colonial society : segregation; education as implantation of motherlands' identity

... Italy conquers Ethiopia 1935/36
... World War II in Africa
... Free France's last stronghold : Brazzaville

... Decolonisation 1957-1964 (see map
..... Kenia, Algeria, Angola, Mocambique : violent road to independence
..... Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, South Africa : Apartheid
..... Congo/Zaire, Ethiopia, Somalia : separatists and unitarian forces
..... Africa during the Cold War
..... population growth, desertification, famine, diseases


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