This document provides instructions for students to analyze visual sources related to the Scramble for Africa and imperialism on the continent. Students are asked to work in groups to write SOAP analyses for assigned images from the time period. They will also answer questions about specific images related to a French board game, French magazine cover, and British political cartoon depicting the Scramble for Africa. The document concludes by asking students to create their own visual source by drawing an outline map of Africa and adding pictures or symbols representing changes on the continent as a result of European imperialism.

1. IMAGE ANALYSIS – SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA

6. VISUAL SOURCES ON THE SCRAMBLE FOR
AFRICA
 Discuss as a group and write a SOAP analysis for
your image (instead of speaker your will write the
artist or publication)
 Discuss and then write responses to the
questions that are next to the first three red boxes
for your source.
 French board game p961
 French magazine cover p962-963
 British political cartoon p963-964
 Ethiopian painting p966-967

7.  French political cartoon p965-966

9.  What was distinctive about European
colonial empires of the nineteenth century
(as opposed to earlier empires in history)?
 Which of the following is a way that
colonial subjects benefitted from
European education?

10. IMPERIALISM IN AFRICA
 Create a visual source
on imperialism in
Africa…
 Draw a blank outline
map of Africa and
then draw pictures or
symbols of changes
that happened in
Africa as a result of
imperialism
 (p925-939)