Page 119 - Volume 1_Go home mzungu Go Home_merged with links

The struggle for independence

“Vade Retro domum” - “Nolo Relinquere”

between Adenauer and de Gaulle - with the French colonial attempts and agreed to
provide substantially to the European Development Fund. "

"Eurafrica" 101
Wikipedia
*****
Eurafrica and the myth of African independence

" Independence did not decolonise African countries and did not put an end to European
exploitation.

***

As European scholars Peo Hansen and Stefan Jonsson of Linkoping University in
Sweden have noted, "the EU (or the European Economic Community, EEC, as it was called

at its foundation) was from the outset designed, among other things, to enable a rational,
co-European colonial management of the African continent."

As the Chinese do today, in the years following the end of World War II, many in Europe
saw in Africa the resources and markets they required to rebuild their shattered

economies and to join the United States and the USSR as a third superpower. Africa and
its resources thus featured prominently in discussions over the creation of pan-European

institutions.

The Rome Treaty, which established the EEC in 1957, was nothing short of a resurrection
of the Berlin Conference's General Act, which 73 years earlier had sought to create an

internationalised regime of free trade stretching across the middle of Africa."

"Eurafrica and the Myth of African Independence." (November 2019) 102
Al Jazeera
Gathara, Patrick.

*****
The Struggle for Independence

Formation of Independence Movements

“ Before World War II, organized protest against colonial rule was centered in

organizations such as labor unions, student groups, social clubs, and religious groups.
After the war, these associations became better organized and focused increasingly on

political issues. The first local and regional African political parties grew out of these
groups. Many of them opposed colonial rule and supported freedom movements.