Africa

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  • 1400

    Europeans begin Sea Voyages

  • 1400

    Trade Beyond the Sahara

  • 1500

    Slave Traders begin selling slaves

  • 1500

    European trading posts

  • 1500

    Europeans actively colonize Africa

  • Eastern Africa colonized

  • Slave trade is outlawed

  • Africans Regain power over their homelands

  • European nations divide Africa

  • South Africa is independent

  • The Kikuyu people start a political organization

  • Italy invades Ethiopia

  • African independence movement

  • South Africa adopts apartheid

  • Most of Africa is Independent

  • In Sudan, the southerners rebel against the north's rules=

  • Ghana becomes independent

  • Nigeria becomes independent

  • Congo becomes independent

  • Nelson Mandela is put into a jail

  • Kenya becomes independent

  • Joseph Mobutu takes charge of Zaire (Congo)

  • The Igbos want to leave Nigeria

  • F.W. Klerk is President of South Africa until 1994

  • Mandela is released from prison and apartheid ends

  • Mandela is elected president

  • The Hutu military killed 800,000 Tutsis in Rwanda

  • Thousands of people were killed in Darfur

  • Civil Wars in Sudan from 1956 to 2005

  • The Arab Spring beings in Tunisia

  • South Sudan becomes independent

  • Tunisia's dictator resigns

  • The king of Morocco approved voters

  • Muammar Qaddafi was killed

  • Hosni Mubarak resigns from being president of Egypt

  • Mohammed Morsi becomes president of Egypt

  • Morsi is imprisoned