World history/WHME102/Modernization and resistance/Europe in Africa

Reading

Read the below article, from the Saylor Foundation. As you do so, consider the following questions:

• What changing European beliefs in the nineteenth century contributed to imperialism in Africa?

• What factors made Africa vulnerable to imperialism in the nineteenth century?

Jim Jones, 'Europe and Africa in the 19th Century', Saylor Foundation, 2012.

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