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Period: 1400 to 1400
Long Sea Voyages
They learned of the riches of Africa beyond the Sahara and began to set up colonies -
Period: 1400 to 1400
Africans Beyond
Africans beyond the Sahara began trading with Europeans who had recently arrived on their coastline -
Period: 1500 to 1500
Traders
Traders began selling enslaved people for guns and other European goods -
Period: to
Southern and Eastern
They were also colonized as early as 1600s -
Period: to
Slave Trade
Slave trade was mostly outlawed in the early 1800s -
Period: to
Power
They regained power over their own lands -
Period: to
South Africa
South Africa indépendance came as early as 1910s -
Period: to
Kikuyu
Kikuyu people started a political organization in the 1920s -
Period: to
Never Colonized
The only country that was never colonized was Ethiopia though it was invaded by Italy in 1930s -
Period: to
F.W. de Klerk
South African's president from 1989 -
Period: to
Apartheid
A former South African policy of strict separation of races -
Period: to
Most of Africa
Most of Africa gained independence in 1950 -
Period: to
Sudan
Sudan gained indépendance in 1956 -
Period: to
Ghana
Ghana became independent in 1957 -
Period: to
Nigeria
They became independent in 1960 -
Period: to
Most of Africa
Most of Africa gained independence in 1950 -
Period: to
Nelson Mandela
He was an ANC leader who was jailed in 1962 -
Period: to
Kenya
They gained independents in 1963 -
Period: to
Army Leader
Joseph Mobutu seized power and changed the country's name to Zaire -
Period: to
Oil Rich Region
Controlled by the Lobo ethnic group attempted to leave Nigeria -
Period: to
F.W. de Klerk
South African's president from 1989 -
Period: to
Released Mandela
He released Mandela from prison and agreed to end apartheid -
Period: to
South Africans
All races voted together and Mandela became president -
Period: to
Hundreds of thousands of people
Hundreds of thousands of people mostly black farmers were killed in the early 2000s -
Period: to
Civil Wars
Raged until 2005 and killed several million people -
Period: to
A Movement
For more democracy that came to be known as the Arab Springs began in Tunisia -
Period: to
South Sudan
They became independent -
Period: to
He Issued
A new constitution that voters approved in 2011 -
Period: to
Egyptians elected
An Islamist president Mohammed Morsi -
Period: to
Military
Imprisoned mores and banned his political party