Imperialism in Africa

A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries politically, economically, or socially.

• Coloinalism

• racism

• Imperialism

• assimilation

When a larger country takes over a smaller country and tries to instill its government and culture and economy on the people of the smaller country.

• africaners

• partition

• ethnocentrism

• colonialism

Belief in the superiority of one's nation or ethnic group.

• ethnocentrism

• assimilation

• Rudyard Kipling

• Racism

A policy of treating subject people as if they were children, providing for their needs but not giving them rights.

• colonialism

• paternalism

• social drawinism

• partition

Belief that one race is superior to another

• assimilation

• imperialism

• racism

• scrabble for Africa

A policy in which a nation forces or encourages a subject people to adopt its institutions and customs.

• scrabble for Africa

• King Leopold II

• Shaka Zulu

• assimilation

The application of Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human societies‐ particularly as justification for imperialist expansion.

• Social Drawinism

• scrabble for Africa

• Partition

• Rudyard Kipling

The European invasion of Africa to secure colonies, raw materials and markets for European goods.

• Assimilation

• Colonialism

• Scrabble for Africa

• Rudyard Kipling

King of Belgium who founded and exploited the Congo.

• Rudyard Kipling

• Berlin Conference

• Shaka Zulu

• King Leopold II

British writer who wrote of "the white man's burden" and justified imperialism

• King Leopold II

• Shaka Zulu

• Rudyard Kipling

• King Killian