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Europeans took long sea voyages and learned about the riches of Africa.
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Africans began trading with the Europeans who had recently moved to the coastline. The Gold made the Europeans come to Africa.
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Africans started selling enslaved people for guns and other European stuff.
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The Europeans had built trading post on the African coast.
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Southern and Eastern Africa was also colonized.
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Slavery was mostly outlawed, but the Europeans interference in Africa continued.
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The Europeans powers began colonizing Africa.
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Africans regained power of their lands.
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The European nations had divided most of Africa into colonies.
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South Africa's independence came as early as 1910
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In Kenya, the Kikuyu people started a political organization with the independence of Britain.
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The only country that was never colonized was; Ethiopia.
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African Independence movements gained momentum.
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Most of Africa gained their independence in the 1950s to the 1960s
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Ghana became independent.
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Azikiwe, who had left Nigeria, to pursue a U.S. education, and returned to help the independence movements. That is when Nigeria became independent.
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Belgium granted independence to the Belgian Congo.
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They adopted apartheid, which is a former South African policy of strict separation of races.
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He was an ANC leader and was jailed in 1962
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After many of negotiations and finally violence between the British and Kenya fighters, Kenya fighters finally gained independence.
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An army leader, Joseph Mobutu, seized power and changed the countries traditional name, Congo River, to Zaire.
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An army leader, Joseph Mobutu, seized power and changed the countries traditional name, Congo River, to Zaire.
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An oil-rich region controlled by Igbo ethnic group attempted to leave Nigeria.
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He was released in 1990.
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After Mandela was released, apartheid ended.
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They all voted together.
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He became president in 1994, when South African's voted together.
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Civil wars raged until 2005, and killed millions of people.
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They became independence in 2011.
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He was killed in October of 2011.
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The military imprisoned Morsi and banned his political party.