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Role of individuals in the 'opening' of Africa - Coggle Diagram
Role of individuals in the 'opening' of Africa
Traders
Goldie
Warned of increased French activity to Foreign Office
Goldie's Company
Chief danger to profits was by paying too high a price to the African producers and middlemen
He recognised the days of the unofficial empire were over -
Mackinnon and Rhodes
MacKinnon - Imperial British East Africa Company
Rhodes - British South Africa Company
Rhodes - British businessman and politician in southern Africa
Rhodes - prime minister of Cape Colony(1890-1896)
Missionaries
Livingstone
Proclaimed to Stanly in 1971 that his own mission was not so much to preach the gospel to Africa
Has been called a saint
Believed he could heal the 'open sore of the world' by making an 'open path' from civilisation.
Buganda
King Mwanga in an outburst of rage ordered all Christians 'readers' at court to be seized
castrated
hacked to death
bodies left to the vultures
young boys died singing and praising the white man's God
Illustrated journals
Described both the process of individual missionaries and the people they encountered
Had vast readership
Explorers
Livingstone
Speke
Burton
"The blood flows with the fast circulation of childhood... A fresh dawns the morn of life" - Burton said on the eve of his trek to uncover the source of the Nile 1856.
Stanley
Journalist and explorer
Came to fame after finding Livingstone in 1871
Pivotal in working for the claims of Leopold II
Known as 'Bula Matari' - the breaker of rocks for the nature of his expeditions
Peters and Wissman
Karl Peters -architect of Germany's African Empire
Envisaged a vast German territory in East
Africa to rival that of Britain.
Mkono-wa-damu, “the man with blood stained
hands.”
Convinced Otto von Bismarck to take over German East Africa and increase Germany’s colonies in Africa
De Brazza
Italian-born French explorer
Pivotal in opening up Central Africa and staking claims for France in the region
Known for his conciliatory style
Had come to redeem Central Africa to save it from slavery and introduce legitimate trade