Africa By cliftonees 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 1600 Eastern Africa colonized 1800 Slave trade is outlawed 1900 Africans Regain power over their homelands 1900 European nations divide Africa 1910 South Africa is independent 1920 The Kikuyu people start a political organization 1930 Italy invades Ethiopia 1940 African independence movement 1948 South Africa adopts apartheid 1950 Most of Africa is Independent 1956 In Sudan, the southerners rebel against the north's rules= 1957 Ghana becomes independent 1960 Nigeria becomes independent 1960 Congo becomes independent 1962 Nelson Mandela is put into a jail 1963 Kenya becomes independent 1965 Joseph Mobutu takes charge of Zaire (Congo) 1967 The Igbos want to leave Nigeria 1989 F.W. Klerk is President of South Africa until 1994 1990 Mandela is released from prison and apartheid ends 1994 Mandela is elected president 1994 The Hutu military killed 800,000 Tutsis in Rwanda 2000 Thousands of people were killed in Darfur 2005 Civil Wars in Sudan from 1956 to 2005 2010 The Arab Spring beings in Tunisia 2011 South Sudan becomes independent 2011 Tunisia's dictator resigns 2011 The king of Morocco approved voters 2011 Muammar Qaddafi was killed 2011 Hosni Mubarak resigns from being president of Egypt 2012 Mohammed Morsi becomes president of Egypt 2013 Morsi is imprisoned