Decolonization in Africa Continued
By: Benedict Farrell
Black African Nationalism and independence
- During world war II, nationalism was thriving in sub-saharan africa
- The pan African movement movement spurred on Africans to embrace their being black as opposed to their European colonial neighbors
- African cultural appeared in American and french societies
- the term "negritude" is created in west Africa to promote black culture, or the celebration of being black
- Grassroots protests against European imperialists start to make more and more appearances in sub-saharan Africa
- Labor strikesbecame common in certain factories because of the miniscule wage that the african workers were being paid
- religious avenues opened up for Africans, Simon kimbangu promises that god will deliver the africans from imperial control
- poets associated with negritude are pushings africans to turn on their colonial rulers, an example could be bernard dadie's poem "Dry your tears Africa!"
Dry your tears Africa! by Bernard Dadie
Dry your tears, Africa!
Your Children come back to you
Out of the storm and squalls of fruitless journeys
Through the crest of the waves and the bubbling of the breeze,
Over the gold of the East
and the Purple of the setting Sun,
the peaks of the proud mountains
and the grasslands drenched with light
They return to you
out of the storm and squalls of fruitless journeys
Dry your tears, Africa!
We have drunk
From all the springs of ill fortune and of glory
And our senses are now opened
To the splendour of your beauty
To the smell of your forests
To the charm of your waters
To the clearness of your skies
To the cares of your sun
And to the charm of your foliage pearled by the dew
Dry your tears, Africa!
Your children come back to you
Their hand full of playthings
And their heart full of love
They return to clothe you
In their dreams in their hopes
Your Children come back to you
Out of the storm and squalls of fruitless journeys
Through the crest of the waves and the bubbling of the breeze,
Over the gold of the East
and the Purple of the setting Sun,
the peaks of the proud mountains
and the grasslands drenched with light
They return to you
out of the storm and squalls of fruitless journeys
Dry your tears, Africa!
We have drunk
From all the springs of ill fortune and of glory
And our senses are now opened
To the splendour of your beauty
To the smell of your forests
To the charm of your waters
To the clearness of your skies
To the cares of your sun
And to the charm of your foliage pearled by the dew
Dry your tears, Africa!
Your children come back to you
Their hand full of playthings
And their heart full of love
They return to clothe you
In their dreams in their hopes
African independence
- it was at times beleived by europeans in world war II tha Africans were incapable of governing themselves
- Africa had issues decolonizing itself due to thing like white setlers in there towns and there were also imperial powers trying to root out people who may have been spreading communist beliefs
- Slowly but surely each African colony gained their independence, and each newly freed colony would help the other in its fight for independence
- indepedence went at many different rates in Africa
- some differed in when they got independence by even thirty years
- freedom often resulted in internal conflict, civil wars, riots etc...
- after independence was gained, there was also extremely bitter and harsh feelings from the Africans to their colonists, new African countries would change their names and do everything they could not to reflect their predesescers.
- Analysis: the turmoil in Africa can probably be traced back to the berlin conference where there was no concern of the actual tribes in Africa, they were forcing people of different tribes to be together when they were actually rivals
Africa before and after negritude
Gahna, Kenya, and Mau Mau
- Gahna gained independence kwame nkrumah, who was later jailed by the english.
- nkrumah made was in inspiration for other African countries and places
- Queen elizabeth visited Ganha in royale regalia and was met by the leader of gahna, dressed in traditional African gaurd
- Ghana was known as a non violent gaining of independence, this was not true for mau mau and Kenya, who had long and bloody revolutions to get their independence
- kikiyu tribes of mau mau rose up against their oppressors
- british labor rules and stipulations caused the radical kikiyu tribe to rise up and fight, there was lots of violence
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