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  European ships sail into afraica
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  Europeans begin to trade with South Africa
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  Europeans capture Africans to sell them as slaves
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  European trade posts are built on african shores
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  southern and eastern afracia was colonized by belgium, Great Brittan, and Dutch.
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  European countries outlaw slave trade
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  European countries make colonies in Africa
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  African countries are freed from European rule
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  european countries took over most of Africa
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  South Africa frees themselves from Great Brittan
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  Kenyan people start to work for independence
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  Italy tries to take over Ethiopia but fails
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  Africa seeks independence from European countries
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  South Africa begins to separate races
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  Sudan gaineds independence
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  Ghana gains independence
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  Nigeria becomes a country
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  belgium congo gains independence
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  Belgium Congo changes its name to Zaire
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  most of Africa gains independence by the 1960's
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  Nelson Mandela was jailed and tortured over racism and segregation in south Afraica
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  Kenya gains its independence
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  a region controlled by Igbo tried to leave Nigeria but failed
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  F.W. de Klerk decide that apartheid is destroying his country and so he abolished it
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  Nelson Mandela was released from prison due to an order from the president
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  Nelson Mandela was voted for president
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  the genocide killed 800,000 people
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  in the early 2000's the government killed all of the black farmers who did not flee
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  several countries in Africa are involved in a civil war and
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  South Sudan gains independence, finally