In the cities arrives each year 67 million inhabitants, 1. In the same year the average annual salary of a french manual labourer. The mainland was free, and in 1898, spain lost cuba and puerto rico in the. The decolonization of africa took place in the midtolate 1950s to 1975, with sudden and radical regime changes on the continent as colonial governments made the transition to independent states. Beginnings of decolonization at the end of wwii only a few nations were independent. Britain, france and the decolonization of africa ucl discovery.
Africa, notably the twomonth long strike movement in senegal in 1946 and the. Chapter 33 the cold war and decolonization, 19451975. Powtoon is a free tool that allows you to develop cool animated clips and animated presentations for your website, office meeting, sales pitch. Chapter 33 the cold war and decolonization, 19451975 i. The decolonization of africa was one of the turning points in the history of the postwar world. It is the purpose of african decolonization to show that this living past pervades the present. Because of the provichy attitude of the societe le nickel during world war two, and its. Western africa western africa decolonization and the regaining of independence. Decolonization and african society by frederick cooper. Although decolonization might also hold economic, psychological, or cultural implications, the term here merely denotes a political transfer of power from the colonial power to the indigenous peoples. Pdf on jan 1, 20, zachary valentine wright and others published islam and decolonization in.
Lafriqueoccidentale francaise aof etait une federation groupant. It captured the imagination of a new generation of idealists who enthusiastically proclaimed their belief in racial equality and individual liberty. The republic of senegal is a former french colony in the western flank of africa. Assimilation in senegal 195 vated by the overpowering revolutionary slogan. The liberation of africa from european rule followed on. Senegal is a pricetaker in the international groundnut market. In the absence of written sources and monumental ruins in this region, the history of the early centuries of the modern era must be based primarily on archaeological excavations, the writing of early geographers and travelers, written in arabic and data derived from oral tradition. Decolonisation definition of decolonisation by the free. There was widespread unrest and there were organized revolts in both northern and subsaharan colonies, especially in. The end of the colonial period and the establishment during 195776 of all the former colonies as independent states was attributable both to a change in european attitudes toward africa and the possession of colonies and to an african reaction to colonial rule born of the economic and social changes it had. This study takes decolonisation as being the time during which several political formations were suggested and ideas for economic strategies forged. After world war ii western leaders perceived the soviet union as the center of a world revolutionary movement, while soviet leaders felt themselves surrounded by the western countries and their north atlantic treaty organization founded 1949.
For senegal, this period began roughly after the second world war and ended in 1963, when the moderate forces had won against the more radical ones. The region of modern senegal was a part of the larger region called upper guinea by european traders. Frederick cooper, le nationalisme et le mouvement ouvrier. Ivory coast, mali, niger, senegal, togo, cameroon, central african republic, chad. Decolonization in the african continent is explored through the iconic figure. Frederick cooper gathers a vast range of archival sources in french and english to achieve a truly comparative study of colonial policy toward the recruitment, control, and institutionalization of african labor forces from the mid 1930s, when the labor question was first posed, to the late 1950s, when decolonization was well under way. French sudan, and senegal the last two originally as a singleentity called.