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The Europeans began began to sail south around the continent of Africa. To attempt to find wealth.
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In the 1500s the Europeans began to sell Africans guns, but in return they got slaves.
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In the early 1800s Europeans began to take over more land to provide resources for there country.
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By the late 1800s to the early 1900s Europe had taken over Most of Africa.
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Inspired by World War II the Africans began rebel against colonization.
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Finally South Africa was give their independence for Great Britain.
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The Kikuyu people of Kenya started a political organization in the 1920s so they could fight for their freedom.
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By the 1930s the only country left to be colonized are Ethiopia. But, Italy invaded in 1930.
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White Africans called Afrikaners made apartheid law.
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In 1956 Sudan gained independence for Great Britain.
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Form 1956 to 1972 and then from 1983 to 2005 war broke out in South Africa.
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Pan-Africanism which is belief in the unity of all black Africans. In 1957 Ghana gained its independence.
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In 1960 Nigeria beat the British in the fight of independence.
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In 1960 the Belgium Congo be independent but unable to create and stable government.
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Rwanda got is independence in 1962 but shortly after violence broke out and the Hutu people came into power.
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Finally in 1963 the Kenya people became independent.
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Mandela was arrested in 1964 and his got a life sentence because of this actions.
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Because of the unstable government Joseph Mobutu cam into power.
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In 1967 the Igbo people decided to declare their independence.
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Mandela wouldn’t be silenced he continued to protest from his prison cell, and F.W. De Klerk was elected.
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In 1990 de Klerk announced the end of apartheid. He also pardoned Nelson Mandela.
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Mandela and de Klerk were given the Nobel Peace Prize for ending apartheid.
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South Africa held its first election in 1994, and Nelson Mandela was elected.
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Rwanda continued to have violence until 1994 when the Hutu People stared to engage the Tutsi people.
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The Tunisia people began to push for a democratic government starting in 2010.
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South Sudan recognized its independence in 2011.
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President Ben Ali resigned and a democratic government was set in place.
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Finally in 2011 Qaddafi was found and killed, and a new goverment was set in place.
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In 2011 Mubarak was forced to resign and he was replaced.
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Mubarak was replaced by an Islamic fundamentalist government and it was led by Mohammed Morsi in 2012.
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In 2013 Morsi’s term was short lived because it was overthrown by the coutries military.