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