Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Africa on the Eve of Partition
- 2 The European Partition of Africa: Origins and Dynamics
- 3 North Africa
- 4 Western Africa, 1870–1886
- 5 Western Africa, 1886–1905
- 6 Western Equatorial Africa
- 7 Southern Africa, 1867–1886
- 8 Southern and Central Africa, 1886–1910
- 9 Portuguese Colonies and Madagascar
- 10 East Africa 1870–1905
- 11 The Nile Basin and the Eastern Horn, 1870–1908
- 12 The European Scramble and Conquest in African History
- Bibliographical Essays
- Bibliography
- Index
- Map 9 West Africa, c. 1870">
- Map 10 West Africa, c. 1905
- Map 13 The Congo Independent State
- Map 26 Ethiopia, the Nile Valley and the Horn in the era of Menelik II
- References
1 - Africa on the Eve of Partition
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Introduction
- 1 Africa on the Eve of Partition
- 2 The European Partition of Africa: Origins and Dynamics
- 3 North Africa
- 4 Western Africa, 1870–1886
- 5 Western Africa, 1886–1905
- 6 Western Equatorial Africa
- 7 Southern Africa, 1867–1886
- 8 Southern and Central Africa, 1886–1910
- 9 Portuguese Colonies and Madagascar
- 10 East Africa 1870–1905
- 11 The Nile Basin and the Eastern Horn, 1870–1908
- 12 The European Scramble and Conquest in African History
- Bibliographical Essays
- Bibliography
- Index
- Map 9 West Africa, c. 1870">
- Map 10 West Africa, c. 1905
- Map 13 The Congo Independent State
- Map 26 Ethiopia, the Nile Valley and the Horn in the era of Menelik II
- References
Summary
NORTH OF THE EQUATOR
It has become a truism of historical writing to conceive of Africa in the course of the nineteenth century as becoming increasingly a part of, and a product of, the expansion of Europe, which, beginning in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, had integrated ever larger areas of the world into a single economic system. In attempting an overview of the state of the continent on the eve of partition – roughly over the decade of the 1870s – a large number of questions arise from a consideration of this truism. To what extent was Africa already an adjunct of an economic system dominated by Europe? What was the relationship between Africa and this European system – was it one of an equal or an unequal exchange of commodities? To what extent was Africa dependent economically, if not yet politically? What social and ideological changes were beginning to follow from this dependency? Was Africa a fruit ripe for plucking in the 1870s, was there a certain inevitability about the forthcoming imperialist carve-up, or was partition an extraneous historical occurrence forced upon a continent which had within it other options for coping with the future?
There are no answers to these questions that are at the same time simple and sensible. Certainly the answers to all such queries will differ, according to the region of Africa which is under scrutiny. Even within particular regions, the situation of individual states, societies or groups of people, their relations with each other and with the outside world (especially with the European capitalist economies) varied greatly.
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