POST-COLONIAL AFRICA

HWH UNIT 13 CHAPTER 20.2

EXAMPLE I: SOUTH AFRICA

EXAMPLE I: SOUTH AFRICA Independent from Britain,

1910 Apartheid

Rule by white minority Resistance to Apartheid

African National Congress (ANC)

Nelson Mandela Non-violence

Sharpeville Massacre, 1960

ENDING APARTHEID Archbishop Desmond

Tutu Nobel Peace Prize

Foreign Pressure Economic Sanctions

F.W. de Klerk Mandela freed in 1990 1994: Mandela

elected president

SOUTH AFRICA TODAY World Cup, 2010 AIDS Poverty Discrepancy between the races

EXAMPLE II: RWANDA

EXAMPLE II: RWANDA Hutus: Majority in

Rwanda Tutsis: Minority, but

ruled the country 1994: Hutus rise up

against Tutsis 800,000 killed UN withdrew

Neighboring Burundi also had Hutu-Tutsi conflict

RWANDA TODAY Trying to reconcile the genocide Leaders and collaborators on trial

EXAMPLE III: SUDAN

EXAMPLE III: SUDAN North-South Divide

North: Arab and Muslim

South: Dinka and Christian

Civil War Millions killed

Darfur Arabs supported by

the government massacred non-Arab civilians

SUDAN TODAY The “Lost

Boys” of Sudan http://www.cbsnews.com/830

1-18560_162-57576821/the-lost-boys-of-sudan-12-years-later/

Peace, 2005 Partition, 2012

South Sudan