MC_A Concise History of Africa

A Concise History of Africa

Words to understand Apartheid: (In South Africa) A policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race. Pan-Africanism: The principle or advocacy of the political union of all the indigenous inhabitants of Africa. Pastoral nomads: Groups who raise livestock, and they move about within their established territory to find good pastures for their animals.

rapidly waned, colonialism celebrated them, and what was regarded as “traditional” was set like a fly in amber. Africans were given tribal identities and ethnicity

was restored – invented by elites and Europeans. The British believed Africans had tribes, so tribes came into being to which they could belong.

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