Southern Africa - European and African interaction in the 19th century

Southern Africa

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Introduction
Southern Africa before the 15th century
- Early humans and Stone Age society
- The Khoisan
- The spread of Bantu languages
- Food production
- The rise of more complex states
  - Toutswe
  - Swahili culture
  - Mapungubwe and Great Zimbabwe
  - Torwa, Mutapa, and Rozwi
  - Small-scale societies
European and African interaction from the 15th through the 18th century
- The Portuguese in west-central Africa
  - The Imbangala
  - The Chokwe
  - The Ovimbundu
- The Portuguese in southeastern Africa
  - The Zambezi valley
  - Other southeastern African states
  - The declining power of the Portuguese
- The Dutch at the Cape
  - First Khoekhoe-Dutch contact
  - Boer expansion
  - Slavery at the Cape
  - Khoisan resistance to the Dutch
  - Xhosa-Dutch conflict
European and African interaction in the 19th century
- “Legitimate” trade and the persistence of slavery
  - The continuation of the slave trade
  - Effects of the slave trade
- The “time of turmoil”
  - Causes of the Mfecane
  - Shaka and the creation of the Zulu
  - Increasing violence in other parts of Southern Africa
    - The Mfengu and the Mantatee
    - Moshoeshoe
    - Mzilikazi
    - The Kololo
- British development of the Cape Colony
  - Changes in the status of Africans
  - Continuing settler-Xhosa wars
  - Growth of missionary activity
- The expansion of white settlement
  - The Republic of Natalia and the British colony of Natal
  - Voortrekker republics in the interior
  - The Orange Free State and Basutoland
- Minerals and the scramble for Southern Africa
  - The diamond industry
  - The discovery of gold
- The annexation of Southern Africa
  - Cecil Rhodes in Southern Africa
  - Expropriation of African land
- Portugal and Germany in Southern Africa
  - Colonists in Angola and Mozambique
  - Angola and Mozambique in the late 19th century
  - Germans in South West Africa
Southern Africa, 1899–1945
- The South African War
- The nature of colonial rule
  - The changing labour market
  - Changes for Afrikaners
  - Growth of racism
  - Basutoland, Bechuanaland, and Swaziland
  - Ovamboland
  - Rhodesia
    - Southern Rhodesia
    - Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia
  - Settlers in Mozambique and Angola
  - Class and ethnic tensions among white settlers
- Land, labour, and taxation
  - White agriculture and African reserves
  - The invention of tribalism
  - Labour and the mining industry
  - The impact of migrant labour
  - Urbanization and manufacturing
- The African response
  - Royal family politics
  - Political organizations and trade unions
  - Christianity and African popular religion
- The impact of World War II
Independence and decolonization in Southern Africa
- The consolidation of white rule in Southern Africa
- Peaceful independence
  - Lesotho, Botswana, and Swaziland
  - The Central African Federation
  - Malawi and Zambia
- The struggle for independence
  - Angola and Mozambique
  - Zimbabwe
  - South West Africa
  - Namibia
  - South Africa

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