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The Scramble for Africa

VHS
36 minutes
DT31 .S371 1986

Narrated by Dr. I. R. Smith, who covers the African response to European colonization, the preliminary subjugation of northern Africa by the French and British, and the frantic efforts of latecomers such as Belgium, Germany, and Italy. The slave trade of the interior, the missionary impulse and Cecil Rhodes and his "Cairo to Capetown" dreams of British hegemony influenced the course of colonization. Economic and geopolitical factors are discussed, both in imperialistic context and in terms of the newly independent nations as they struggle with a troubled legacy.

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