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The Scramble for Africa

DVD
36 min
1986
DT31 .S37 1986 DVD

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. Part of the Warwick History Video series.

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