Africa Resource Guide

Institution based on a relationship of dominance and submission, whereby one person owns another and can exact from that person labor or other services.

A trade in Africa which started in ancient times.

From Encyclopedia of World Trade From Ancient Times to the Present
Atlantic trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries.

A movement culminating in the late 18th and early 19th centuries that aimed first to end the slave trade, and then to abolish the institution of slavery and emancipate slaves. The movement took place in Europe, mainly in the UK, and in the USA.

From A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and its Empires
The Berlin Conference has often been regarded as the beginning of the partition of Africa. Yet the ‘Scramble for Africa’ started well before it.

1800–1815, conflict between the United States and the Barbary States.

From Encyclopedia of African History
After initial prospecting success in 1886, major gold reserves were considered well proven by the early 1890s.

From The Reader's Companion to Military History
1899–1902. The Boer War began when Sir Alfred Milner, the British high commissioner in South Africa, goaded the Boers in the South African republics into declaring war on October 12, 1899.

From Chambers Dictionary of World History
The bellicose venture by Mussolini aimed at winning popular support at home, an increase in Italian prestige and strategic gains to pressurize the British in the Eastern Mediterranean.

From Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable
In the days of imperialism the duty supposed to be imposed upon the white races, especially the British, to govern and to educate the more 'backward' coloured peoples.

From Africa and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and HistoryIn Encyclopedia of Race and Racism
The concept of “diaspora” suggests the spread or scattering of a specific population or race of people to different and far-flung places throughout the world.

Racial-segregation policy of the government of South Africa from 1948 to 1994.

Extension of political and economic control over an area by a state whose nationals have occupied the area and usually possess organizational or technological superiority over the native population.

Country under the control of immigrants who remain subject to the jurisdiction of the parent state.

Broadly, the extension of rule or influence by one government, nation, or society over another.

From Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology
Orientalism is a largely implicit paradigm within which Oriental civilizations have been understood by the West.

Racial discrimination or racism involves treating people differently, often unfavourably, because of their nationality, their skin colour, or their religious belief.

From Chambers Dictionary of World History
The name given to Europeans of a variety of national origins who flocked to the Transvaal after the discovery of gold there in 1886.

From World Politics Since 1945

Empire covering, at its height in the 1920s, about a sixth of the landmass of the Earth, all of its lands recognizing the United Kingdom (UK) as their leader.

From Encyclopedia of African History
Between about 1770 and 1880, exploration of Africa made possible accurate maps and publishable information on the continent.

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather guide
Diamond-mining capital city of Northern Cape Province, South Africa. Its mines have been controlled by De Beers Consolidated Mines since 1887.

Former province, NE South Africa.

Economic heartland of Gauteng province, South Africa. Gold was first found here in 1853.

From Chambers Dictionary of World History
The diamond mining company formed by Cecil Rhodes in 1887 from the amalgamation of several companies operating at Kimberley, Cape Province.

Fuel substance of plant origin, largely or almost entirely composed of carbon with varying amounts of mineral matter.

A tree, its seeds, and the beverage made from them.

Mineral, one of two crystalline forms of the element carbon (see allotropy), the hardest natural substance known, used as a gem and in industry.

Gold has been known from prehistoric times and was possibly the first metal used by humans.

Type of dentin present only in the tusks of the elephant. Ivory historically has been obtained mainly from Africa.