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/8301-18560_162-57576821/the-lost-boys-of-sudan-12-years-later/

Peace, 2005 Partition, 2012

South Sudan