MC_A Concise History of Africa

A Concise History of Africa

The one country that seems to thoroughly contradict this view is South Africa – known as the “Rainbow Nation” – a term coined by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and later adopted by the then President Nelson Mandela, it being a metaphor to describe the country’s newly developing multicultural diversity, following the quashing of the previous apartheid ideology. Today, South Africa is a nation despite its troubled past, and South Africans, whatever their background, believe this to be truly the case. Not so very long ago, such an outcome would have seemed unimaginable, and the fact that it has happened in South Africa

Text-Dependent Questions 1. Which modern-day country was once was the ancient kingdom of the Dahomey?

2. Kwame Nkrumah was the founding father of which country?

3. Who first used the term “Rainbow Nation” to describe multicultural society in South Africa?

suggests it could happen elsewhere. Africa has enormous manpower and resources at its disposal, if only they could be harnessed efficiently and corruption brought to an end. It

would make sense, therefore, to hope that in the next 50 years, Africa will come to the fore, India and China having already shown it the way in recent years.

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