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They learned of the riches of Africa beyond the Sahara and began to set up colonies
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Africans beyond the Sahara began trading with Europeans who had recently arrived on their coastline
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Traders began selling enslaved people for guns and other European goods
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They were also colonized as early as 1600s
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Slave trade was mostly outlawed in the early 1800s
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They regained power over their own lands
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South Africa indépendance came as early as 1910s
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Kikuyu people started a political organization in the 1920s
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The only country that was never colonized was Ethiopia though it was invaded by Italy in 1930s
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South African's president from 1989
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A former South African policy of strict separation of races
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Most of Africa gained independence in 1950
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Sudan gained indépendance in 1956
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Ghana became independent in 1957
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They became independent in 1960
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Most of Africa gained independence in 1950
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He was an ANC leader who was jailed in 1962
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They gained independents in 1963
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Joseph Mobutu seized power and changed the country's name to Zaire
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Controlled by the Lobo ethnic group attempted to leave Nigeria
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South African's president from 1989
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He released Mandela from prison and agreed to end apartheid
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All races voted together and Mandela became president
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Hundreds of thousands of people mostly black farmers were killed in the early 2000s
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Raged until 2005 and killed several million people
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For more democracy that came to be known as the Arab Springs began in Tunisia
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They became independent
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A new constitution that voters approved in 2011
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An Islamist president Mohammed Morsi
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Imprisoned mores and banned his political party