African Independence (Video) – Zuberi Tukufu (From: www.kanopy.com) https://www.kanopy.com/en/albany/video/125996/125998
Part 1: From Colonialism to Pan-Africanism
PART 1: From Colonialism to Pan-Africanism
1. According to the narrator, what is required to understand the realities of Africa in
the 21st century?
2. For Africans, when did the Second World War really begin? Why?
3. What was the 1941 agreement between the United States and Britain supposed to
do for all colonies around the world? How?
4. According to the narrator, what two events raised questions about the continuation
of colonialism?
5. African soldiers returned from the war having seen freedoms that they did not
experience in their own countries and having witnessed what about Europeans?
6. Who pioneered the Pan-African Congress in Manchester England in 1945?
7. What did the 1945 Pan-African Congress come to represent?
8. What motivated the United States to encourage its allies to “decolonize”?
9. According to Asante, how did the idea of African equality become the basis for
the fight for independence?
PART 2: End of Colonial Rule
10. According to Samia Nkrumah, why was Ghana’s independence in 1957 viewed by
everyone as the beginning of the movement towards independence on the African
continent?
11. On the eve of Ghana’s independence, Kwame Nkrumah maintained that Ghana’s
independence was meaningless unless what happens?
12. Why did African nations with large European populations have to fight bloody
wars to end colonial domination?
13. According to the narrator what did the end of World War II mean for most of
Africa?
14. How did the rise of apartheid in South Africa in 1948 connect with Kwame
Nkrumah’s call for African Unity?