Movie problem
1947 Freedom Now
The People’s Century Part 13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fie7H9EThUQ
answer the questions and add the essential comments or contributions of the individuals interviewed as eyewitnesses to this history.
1.What did the British believe about their rule in India?
2. Who challenged their rule with civil disobedience as urged by Thoreau and hunger strikes?
3. What were the results of Independence for India?
Birenda Kaur:
Satpal Saini:
4. After WWII what fraction of the world was under imperial rule of Europe?
5. The Portuguese have turned Africans into good ______________________________?
6. What do the British believe happens in the Colonial office?
How does it describe Africans?
7. How had the Portuguese left Africans in their colonies?
Leila Mbazima:
8.In the Gold Coast how did British officials explain their price fixing of cocoa?
Anim Assiful: Cocoa farmer 1950
Geoffrey Aduamah War veteran 1948
9. What political strategies did Nkrumah apply to obtain the belief that Africans had the right to govern themselves?
Koma Gbedema
10. Although Ghana gets its independence in 1957, what made Kenya a different case?
11. How had the British experience in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa changed their perceptions of this situation? (Not in the film- think about this
and answer it…)
12. Kenyatta failed to persuade the British to do in Kenya what they had done in Ghana- start with self government and move on to full independence. What did the
Gikuyu do who had seen their land confiscated between WWI and WWII?
Waihwa Theuri:
Sylvia Richardson: [seems to support the idea that the British cared more for their dogs than their Africans…]
Wangugu Gitchonga: Detainee in 1953
Jomo Kenyatta: President of Kenya 1963 [had an MA in Anthropology from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland]
13. What did Nasser have to say after he got away with nationalizing the Suez Canal in the light of US and USSR interference against Israel, France and England?
E.T. Mensah:
Kwame Nkrumah:
14. The French tried to derail any nationalist movement by offering French citizenship to a tiny elite group of assimilés- assimilated Africans who spoke French,
adopted French clothing, food, religion, monogamy and thinking.
Majhemout Diop: Party Activist 1958
Ahmadou Barro Diene: Senegalese student 1958
15. How many countries got their “independence” in 3 years time? (1960-1963) __________
16. Expectations of Africans in countries like Ghana were initially met by seeing more schools, public housing, black bank managers, pilots and technicians. How did
things go wrong in Ghana?
Eddie Francois: Ministry of Public Works 1960
Beatrice Quatey: Market Stall Keeper 1960
Anim Assuful: Cocoa Farmer again
17. Why was there chaos in the (Belgian) Congo? (In addition to what’s in the film, there are the foreign interventions of the copper companies to back secession of
Katanga province where the copper is prevalent)
Southern Africa was delayed in obtaining independence or black majority rule because of deposits of rich minerals (diamonds Angola, Namibia and South Africa, oil,
Angola) or white settlers ( Mozambique, S. Rhodesia and South Africa) or both!!
Independence there: Angola and Mozambique 1974, S. Rhodesia 1985, Namibia 1991, South Africa 1994
18. What did Africans have to do to get their independence in these regions?
Xadreque Paulino Sarea 1970 Frelimo
19. What model has India offered?
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