Assignment 3.4

 

Watch the video about the Scramble for Africa?

• What was result of the Berlin Conference in 1885?

• Who was Cecil Rhodes?

• Who fought the British during the two Boer Wars? Was it a walk over or a bloody slog?

• What was the significance of controling the Suez Canal?

 

Discuss the following poem

Onward Chartered Soldiers, on to heathen lands,

Prayer books in your pockets, rifles in your hands.
Take the florious tidings where trade can be done,
Spread the peaceful gospel --- with a Maxim gun.

 

Tell the wretched natives, sinful are their hearts,
Turn their heathen temples into spirit marts.
And if to your teaching they will not succumb,
Give them another sermon with the Maxim gun...

 

When the Ten Commandments they quite understand,
You their Chief must hocus, and annex their land;
And if they misguided call you to account,
Give them another sermon --- with a Maxim from the Mount.

 

In 1893, in the battle of Shangani River, 1,500 Matebele warriors were killed while only four British died. The English Liberals penned a bitter satire on the victory, which Rhodes' men --- the Chartered Company Volunteers --- then cynically adopted as their anthem.

(Source: http://www.ralphmag.org/CH/empire.html)

Activity:

• Make a map of Africa to demonstrate process of the Scramble for Africe.