BBC History Africa E18: Rhodes, Diamonds, Gold and Greed. Video worksheets, differentiated

The outstanding BBC News History “Africa” series follows and draws on the UNESCO General History of Africa, with extensive interviews with African academics, witnesses, and stakeholders.

In this episode, Zeinab Badawi travels to South Africa and Zimbabwe and sees how southern Africans gradually came to grasp the destruction and suffering that would be inflicted upon them by white settlers. We find out how the original inhabitants of the Cape tried to resist white settlers and the cruel reprisals they endured. We hear about the story of Shaka, King of the Zulus from a descendant of his family and how he helped reshape the map of modern southern Africa as well as the heroic battles of Shaka’s successors against those intent on seizing their riches and land: the greed for diamonds, gold and other resources that impoverished Africans and enriched white settlers, likes Cecil Rhodes.

This episode includes European settlement in southern Africa; the Dutch East India Company and van Riebeeck; the Khoi; forced labour; British Control; The Great Trek; King Shaka; King Mpande; the Battle of Ulundi; diamonds, gold, DeBeers; Ndebele; Rhodes.

16 questions for the 45-minute film. Differentiated! Both versions look very similar, but “B” version has subtle clues. Questions right up to the end, no slack time! Creates a great intro / revision / summary resource. Answer sheet. Very easy to mark. .doc & .pdf for all files.

Treat yourself to the bundle of episodes 16 – 20 here

https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12615952

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