Africa

By ranckijs
  • 1400

    The Golden Age

    The Europeans began began to sail south around the continent of Africa. To attempt to find wealth.
  • 1500

    Trade

    In the 1500s the Europeans began to sell Africans guns, but in return they got slaves.

  • Taking Over

    In the early 1800s Europeans began to take over more land to provide resources for there country.

  • Europe

    By the late 1800s to the early 1900s Europe had taken over Most of Africa.

  • World War II

    Inspired by World War II the Africans began rebel against colonization.

  • Great Britain

    Finally South Africa was give their independence for Great Britain.

  • Freedom

    The Kikuyu people of Kenya started a political organization in the 1920s so they could fight for their freedom.

  • Invade

    By the 1930s the only country left to be colonized are Ethiopia. But, Italy invaded in 1930.

  • Afrikaners

    White Africans called Afrikaners made apartheid law.

  • Great Britain

    In 1956 Sudan gained independence for Great Britain.

  • Wars

    Form 1956 to 1972 and then from 1983 to 2005 war broke out in South Africa.

  • Independence

    Pan-Africanism which is belief in the unity of all black Africans. In 1957 Ghana gained its independence.

  • Nigeria

    In 1960 Nigeria beat the British in the fight of independence.

  • Congo

    In 1960 the Belgium Congo be independent but unable to create and stable government.

  • Control

    Rwanda got is independence in 1962 but shortly after violence broke out and the Hutu people came into power.

  • Years

    Finally in 1963 the Kenya people became independent.

  • Mandela

    Mandela was arrested in 1964 and his got a life sentence because of this actions.

  • Power

    Because of the unstable government Joseph Mobutu cam into power.

  • Igbo

    In 1967 the Igbo people decided to declare their independence.

  • President

    Mandela wouldn’t be silenced he continued to protest from his prison cell, and F.W. De Klerk was elected.

  • The End

    In 1990 de Klerk announced the end of apartheid. He also pardoned Nelson Mandela.

  • Nobel Peace Prize

    Mandela and de Klerk were given the Nobel Peace Prize for ending apartheid.

  • New President

    South Africa held its first election in 1994, and Nelson Mandela was elected.

  • Violence

    Rwanda continued to have violence until 1994 when the Hutu People stared to engage the Tutsi people.

  • Democratic Government

    The Tunisia people began to push for a democratic government starting in 2010.

  • Sudan

    South Sudan recognized its independence in 2011.

  • Ben Ali

    President Ben Ali resigned and a democratic government was set in place.

  • Qaddafi

    Finally in 2011 Qaddafi was found and killed, and a new goverment was set in place.

  • Mubarak

    In 2011 Mubarak was forced to resign and he was replaced.

  • Mohammed Morsi

    Mubarak was replaced by an Islamic fundamentalist government and it was led by Mohammed Morsi in 2012.

  • Short Lived

    In 2013 Morsi’s term was short lived because it was overthrown by the coutries military.