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The Europeans began to make there long sea voyage, they learned of the riches beyond the Sahara
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They began to trade with Europeans who had arrived on their coastlines.
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Africans traders began to selling enslaved people for guns and other European goods
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They started to build trading post on the African cost
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Southern and Eastern Africa were colonized as early as 1600's
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Slave trade was mostly outlawed but Europeans interference in Africa continued
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European powers began actively colonizing Africa
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In 1900, they regained all of their power over their own lands
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South Africa became independent as early as 1910
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Kikuyu people started a political organization with the goal of independence from Britain.
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Europeans nation had divided most of Africa into colonies
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African Independence movements gained momentum
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South Africa adopted apartheid, a former South African policy of strict separation of races
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Most of Africa became Independent in 1950s and 1960s
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Southerns where against Northern Rule
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Ghana became independent in 1957
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Nigeria became an Independent Country
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Belgium Granted Independence to the Belgium Congo
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Nelson Mandela was key in ending apartheid. Mandela was an ANC leader. He was Jailed in 1962. Once he was jail he kept protesting.
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Kenya gained independence for Britain
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An Army leader seized power and changed Belgium's name to Zaire.
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An Oil-Rich Region controlled Igbo ethnic group attempted to leave Nigeria.
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In 1990, Nelson Mandela was released from Jail
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F.W. de Klerk, South Africas President, realized that apartheid was destroying Africa.
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In 1994, Nelson Mandelas becomes President
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During a few months Hutu Military and Militia groups killed an estimated 800,000 to 1 million people
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The Sudanese Government supported the herders, while it failed to protect black farmers. Hundreds of thousands mostly black farmers where killed.
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Civils rages until 2005 and killed several million people.
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A movement for more democrats that come to be know as Arab Springs began in Tunisia
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In 2011, South Sudan became Independent
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Tunisia's dictators Resigned in January of 2011 and a more democratic government was put in place
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King Morocco Responded to peaceful protest. He issued a new constitution that voters approved in 2011. It limited the kings power and strength