Good Afternoon!!!!

1. NVC

2. Warm-Up: Effects of Imperialism

3. West Africa Before the French

Essential Question: What was West Africa like before the French arrived?

Warm-Up: Effects

• Using your DBQ from Block Day, write down THREE negative effects of Imperialism in Africa.

A French Colony• France given West Africa

as part of Berlin Conference

• Direct Control– Paternalism: France rules

over West Africa “for its own good”• “parent/child” relationship

– Assimilation: Africans adopt French culture and become like the French

West Africa Before the French

Mansa Musa I of the Mali Empire

• West Africa home to two great Islamic empires from 1230-1600 AD

• Mali Empire – “a refuge of scholarly and

righteous folk, a resting place of saints, and a meeting place of caravans”

• Songhai Empire – “The Songhai had great rulers, a

powerful army, and countless numbers of territories that were under their ruling. The amount of territory they controlled was more than any other African empire to date."

Modern Mali

• 1960 Mali gains independence from France– Struggles with military

dictatorships

• 1991 March Revolution leads to democracy

• January 2012 military coup d'état– in chaos radical Islamist

groups take over 2/3 of Mali

January 11, 2013: France Intervenes

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTpCa9vSc4Q

December 2013: Central African Republic

• http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-25326008