Zimbabwe: Colonization
Maddie Hedstrom
Hjelmgren 7
Period 9
5-6-09
Zimbabwe: Colonization
Colonization is when a country or its citizens, sends a group of settlers to a place and establish political control over it. Colonization had an enormous impact on Africa. Between the 1400’s and the 1800’s, Europeans began to take interest in Africa, mainly the coastal regions. They established trading posts and engaged in commerce with local peoples. In the late 1800’s, early 1900’s, the British colonized Zimbabwe (Middleton). There was some resistance when the British went to colonize Zimbabwe. They were not treated fairly and they
Southern Rhodesia is now present-day Zimbabwe. In Southern Rhodesia, which is now Zimbabwe, settlers fiercely resisted any attempts to increase African power. By 1980 a majority black African government ruled the nation, which was renamed Zimbabwe.
The Africans in Southern Rhodesia did not want the British there. They opposed to the government and it erupted in guerilla warfare and in the 1970’s the administration’s power began to fall apart.
Cecil John Rhodes was the founder of Zimbabwe. Rhodesia, which is now present day Zimbabwe, was named after him. Rhodes believed that the English had the right to the imperial rule because they believed they were the first race in the world and therefore, the more of the world they inhabited; it would be a better place.
The people of Zimbabwe were not treated very fairly. In the colony of Rhodesia, the native Africans were ruled by an all-white government, in which they were not allowed to participate. Only the white people were allowed to vote and elect the leaders governing their own land.
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