Julia’s Reviews > Africa: A Biography of the Continent > Status Update

Independence
Coups
Nigeria
Botswana
Rwanda
SA

Belgian Congo
Patrice Lumumba

WWII
The Atlantic Charter
Independence of (white) SA
Kenya

Education
Independence movements emergence coinciding with the growth of Soviet Union
Education of Tutsi vs Hutu

Rwanda and Burundi

Rwanda and Burundi

The Anglo-Boer War
WWI

German colonies
Namibia: Herero and Nama, their rebellions and extermination
German East Africa: The Maji-Maji rebellion (people of the Matumbi Hills, prophet Kinkilitili)

The ‚thin white line‘ of colonial authority
Why did the Africans allowed continent-wide submission to colonial rule to happen?

Artificial African borders, e.g. the border between Tanzania and Kenya, Senegal and Gambia, Benin and Nigeria
Germany’s colonies