Anticolonial Movements

in Africa
Harikrishna S
Alwin Simethy
Adithyan K.R
 In Africa, the anticolonial Movements were somewhat different from that of
Asia. Most of the African states took up to safeguard there independence
during the time.
 The first phase of African resistance to colonial rule from about 1880 to 1910
was characterized by several forms of militant anti- colonialism in which
military resistance was the norm.
 struggle in the Vietnam was closely watched by the Algerian nationalists. The
anticolonial political parties supported Algerian independence in forums such
as the United Nations and the Bandung conference.
 On the model of Vietnam successful guerrilla organization of the FLN, carried
out its first military operation in on November 1st 1954, one month after the
fall of Dien Bien Phu .
 Thus common anti –colonialism led to common strategy across colonized
continents. The Algerian war became a major episode in the history of
decolonization.
 The Bandung conference held in Indonesia in April 1955 was the meeting of
independent states of Asia and Africa. Most of the members of were former
colonies.
 The conference celebrated there independence and issued a call for ongoing
efforts to end colonialism. The spirit of Bandung became a major theme of
Mobilization for the continuing anti-colonial movement.
 The Resolution of 1514, the declaration on the Granting independence to colonial
countries and peoples in 1960 is the instances of anti-colonial movement .
 New instruments such as the Non aligned movement and the organization of the
African unity are the agenda of decolonization in the Portuguese colonies and the
settler states of southern Africa.
 Activist states such as Algeria supported the training of guerrilla movements in
Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese guinea for getting independence in 1975.
 The Frelimo government in Mozambique helped the patriotic front in southern
Rhodesia or Zimbabwe, the African National Congress ( ANC ) in South Africa and the
south west African people’s organization ( SWAPO ) in Namibia organized anti-
colonial movements in the 1920s.
 All the anti-colonial movements have generated a feeling of individuality and
identity to the victims of colonialism.
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