Thematic Skit about decolonization based on the book “Weep Not Child”Ī General History of Africa: Africa in the 19th c.Lesson Plan courtesy of Deborah Johnson, a teacher at the Lakeside School in Seattle, WA Koze! Kreol and Colonialism Lesson Plan about colonialism impacting the language of Creole in the country of Mauritius Select list of novels to teach about decolonization, Boston University. To the Mountains of the Moon, Princeton University online mapping exhibit on Mapping African Exploration from 1541 to 1880.Īfriterra cartographic archive with Zoomify technology – a Boston-based non-profit that teachers can visit to see original historical maps firsthand. The Guardian: Africa Mapped: How Europe Drew a Continent Maps (Scholar Blog from Emory) –An article detailing the role of maps in colonialism Places Europeans actually DID discover (Slate) NYT A Century Later: Letting African draw their own maps An 1997 Op-Ed that calls for a “Berlin II” useful to understand the impact of the Berlin conference on DRC & Rwanda What Maps Tell Us (BU lesson plan) & Follow up to BU Lesson Plan: Maps in Correct Order How Cartography helped make colonial empires (Hyperallergic)ĭefining lines: cartography in the age of empire Duke-UNC exhibit on cartography Maps of Africa throughout the centuries – South African history online Indigenous Map-making in intertropical Africa (Bassett) chapterĭecolonizing Cartography – Elizabeth SuttonĪn animated map of African history from 1872 to 2002 and an accompanying list of key participants What would it look like to decolonize cartography? (Hyperallergic article) Less Scrambling, more Reflecting: Teaching about colonialism in Africa from the perspective of resistance by Bram Hubbel, February 9, 2019Īfrican Resistance to Colonial Rule (Talten, Africana Age) MAPS & CARTOGRAPHY The history of the Chagos Islands & Diego Garcia, a page dedicated to humanizing the struggle of the Chagossian people to return to their islands Where were West Africans fighting in World War I? A site that includes a map and several country case studies RESISTANCE A free, open access textbook on the history of struggle against apartheid developed jointly by the African Studies Center and Facing History and Ourselves. Koze! Kreol and Colonialism Lesson Plan (BU African Studies) OPEN SOURCE TEXTBOOKĬonfronting Apartheid. Nigeria: History, Identity, and Change (Brown Choices Program)įreedom in our LifeTime: South Africa (Brown Choices Program)Įxploring Africa: The Era of Global Encroachment (Michigan State University online curriculum – free) Teaching about the Mau Mau in Kenya (BU African Studies)Ĭolonization and Independence in Africa (Brown Choices Program)Ĭolonized Women Talk Back (Howard U Center for African Studies) Colonial rule led to resistance and, ultimately, to independence.Beyond the violent/non-violent binary, resistance was expressed through demands for equality and freedom, religious opposition, economic and labor organization, mass protest, and war. Colonialism was authoritarian and fostered indigenous authoritarian rule, with long-term effects.Colonialism fostered economic dependency, with long-term effects until today.See our lesson on the post-war international aid era. The colonial period was relatively short, roughly 1870–1960-but it has had a heavy and lasting impact on economic, social, and political affairs, leading to what Nkrumah called neocolonalism (political freedom with economic dependency).Religion (Christian missionary activity) played a role in conquest and in colonial rule.Mapping, for example, is related to domination of the continent. Science played a role in conquest and in colonial rule.Anti-Black racism played a role in conquest and in colonial rule.Pros-and cons- of colonialism are not an appropriate activity student learning. Conquest was by brutal force, sometimes by trickery, sometimes by “agreement”-so that African countries could bargain for some rights.Colonialism was a new stage in relationships that had been going on for thousands of years between many of the Africans and Europeans.African voices about African experiences (not just restatement by others of African views) are crucial for understanding this period of history.
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