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In the 1400s Europeans discover the riches of Africa.
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Africans beyond the Sahara began treading with Europeans who had recently arrived on their coastlines
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African traders began sell ing enslaved people for guns and other European goods
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Europeans had built trading posts on the African coast.
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Southern and Eastern Africa were also colonized as early as the 1600s.
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But European interference in Africa continued.
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European powers began actively colonizing Africa.
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The slave trade was mostly outlawed in the early 1800s.
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European nations had divided most of Africa into colonies.
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Africans regained power over their own lands.
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By 1900, European nations had divided most of Africa into colonies
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South Africa gained gained independence from Britain in 1910
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in Kenya the Kikuyu people started a political organization in the 1920s.
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Ethiopia was invaded by Italy in the 1930s
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African independence movements gained momentum in the 1940s
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Ghana became independent in 1950.
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southerners rebelled against northern rule.
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Belgian abruptly granted inde pendence to the Belgian
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Nigeria became independent in 1960s.
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Belgium abruptly granted inde pemdence to the Belgian Congo in 1960s.
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Kenya gained independence in the 1963
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in 1965, army leader Joseph Mobutu seized power and changed the country"s name to Zaire
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1990, he released Mandela from prison and agreed to end apartheid.
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write alit of questions you have about how modern Africa took shape
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During a few months in 1994 Hutu military and militia groups killed an estimated 800,000 to 1 mil lion tutsis
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Civil wars raged until 2005 and killed several million people.
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in 2010, a movement for more democracy that came to be known as the Amrab Spring began in Tunisia.
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In 2011south Sudan became independent.
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Tunisias dictator resigned in January of 2011 and a more democratic government was put in place