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Name: ________________________ Date: __________ Grade: _________ Aim: How did new nations arise in Africa? DAY ONE Aim: How did Ghana lead the way for African decolonization? Ghana – An Overview Directions: Read the following overview and answer the questions below. 1 Dr. Kwame Nkrumah Directions: Watch the video about Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah. Then, answer the questions below. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2t7k6fQ9j0maTV0T3VHNDgyZGs/edit 1) What is a “mixed legacy”? How does it relate to how we study history? ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________ 2) Why is free education so important in a new democracy? What kinds of resources are needed in order to support such a system? ___________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________3) What effect did the Ghana independence have on the rest of the African colonies? ___________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________4) What are some reasons that Kwame Nkrumah began to lose the support of the people of Ghana? What happened as a result of this dissent? ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ 2 ___________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________ 3 Challenges to the New Nation Directions: Read the following account of Nkrumah’s program for Ghana. Then, answer the questions below. 4 Pan-Africanism Directions: Read the following excerpt from Kwame Nkrumah’s Independence Day speech in 1957. Then, answer the questions below. INDEPENDENCE DAY SPEECH GOALS OF PAN-AFRICANISM 5 DAY TWO Aim: Who was Jomo Kenyatta and how did he help liberate Kenya from British rule? Kenya – An Overview Directions: Listen to the PowerPoint lecture on Kenya and take Cornell notes. Question Notes How did the British begin settling Kenya? What were the White Highlands? How did colonial powers force African farmers into low-wage labor? What was the main focus of Kenyans in their struggle against the British? When did Kenya gain its independence from Britain? 6 Jomo Kenyatta Directions: Analyze the following primary source, written by the first Kenyan President, Jomo Kenyatta. 7 The Mau Mau and Guerilla Tactics Directions: Watch the following video and respond to the questions below. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2t7k6fQ9j0mZEcyN1YxSjBFQ0E/edit 1) 0:00 - 2:36 - Who were the Mau Mau? What did they want from the white settlers in Kenya? _____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 2) 2:36 - 3:45 - How did the British use the stories of the Mau Mau oath? _____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 3) 3:45 – 5:25 – What happens to Jomo Kenyatta? _____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 4) 5:25 – 6:30 – How did the Mau Mau’s independence efforts differ from those of Gandhi? _____________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 8 Challenges to the New Nation Directions: Read the following excerpt from an essay on Kenya today. Fill out the chart below. Unfamiliar Names and Troubles on the Path to Problems Facing Kenya Terms Democracy Today 9 DAY THREE Aim: What was apartheid, and how did it segregate society in South Africa? South Africa – An Overview Directions: Read the following introduction to colonization in South Africa, and answer the questions below. 1) Who were the two European groups colonizing South Africa in the seventeenth century? ___________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ 2) What event sparked the Boer War? What does this say about why Europeans wanted to colonize South Africa? ___________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ 3) Describe the policy of apartheid. ___________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________ 10