The Scramble for Africa

MODULE 6
THE SCRAMBLE FOR
AFRICA
Compiled by K
Whitlock 201

,TOPICS
• UNIT 1 – EUROPEAN COLONISATION OF AFRICA IN THE LATE
CENTURY
 1880 AND ONWARDS
• UNIT 2 – THE ASHANTI KINGDOM
 COLONISED AS THE GOLD COAST, NOW KNOWN AS GHANA

,UNIT 1
EUROPEAN COLONISATION OF AFRICA IN THE
LATE 19TH CENTURY
• UNTIL THE 1880S KINGDOMS RULED THEMSELVES IN MOST
PARTS OF AFRICA.
• IN JUST 20 YEARS, AFRICA WAS DIVIDED AND HAD BEEN
COLONISED.
• COLONISATION HAPPENED SO QUICKLY THAT IT BECAME
KNOWN AS THE ‘SCRAMBLE OF AFRICA’.

, AFRICA BEFORE
COLONISATION
• MOST AFRICAN PEOPLE LIVED IN SMALL COMMUNITIES
 BASED ON FAMILIES AND CLANS
• SOME LARGE AFRICAN KINGDOMS HAD DEVELOPED AND SOME
KINGS RULED OVER THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE.
• FOR CENTURIES, AFRICAN PEOPLE HAD THEIR OWN ECONOMIC
SYSTEMS, CULTURE & TRADE ROUTES THROUGHOUT AFRICA.
 THEY HAD CONTACT WITH ARAB TRADERS ACROSS THE SAHARA
DESERT & INDIAN OCEAN.