Early Colonization
Height of Colonization
Videos
Source #7: Video from Discovery Education
Source #8: Video of an overview
In the video we will explore topics such as the impact of colonization to the difficult road most countries faced when they became independent. Now there are issues such as famine, war, desertification, etc. that make it challenging to move ahead as a country and become more developed.
Focus Questions:
In the video we will see how countries struggled to become independent and then faced even more challenges once they became independent. This video does a great job depicting how life was changed during and after colonization, especially how direct rule led to "mini-European cities" in Africa.
We will get to answer these questions by focusing on one country and getting to understand its complex history by tracing who they were prior to being colonized, why they were colonized, what happened during this process and then how this time period continues to impact them today.
Task: Watch the video and answer the questions below in your notebook.
1. What is a single story?
2. What was one of her experiences with a single story (childhood, college experiences, immigration, etc)? *Do you have an experience of a single story?
3. How would you explain a "single story" to someone?
4. How did the lessons about colonization and learning about the history of Africa help expand your understanding of peoples in Africa?
5. How can we go beyond a "single story"?