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Africans beyond the Sahara begin trading with Europeans who had recently arrived on their coastlines.
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African traders began selling 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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The slave trade was mostly outlawed in early 1800s but European interference in Africa continued.
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European powers began actively colonizing Africa.
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Africans regained power over their own lands.
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European nations divided most of Africa into colonies. The only country that was never colonized was Ethiopia, even though it was invaded by Italy in the 1930s.
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South Africa gained independence from Britain.
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In Kenya, the Kikuyu people who started a political organization with the goal of independence from Britain.
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Pan-Africanizm was a political and social movement to unite black africans around the world.
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White minority adopted apartheid a former south African policy of strict separation of races.
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Most of Africa gained independence. South Africa became indecent as early as 1910.
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Nigeria became independent.
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Belgium abruptly granted independence to the Belgian Congo.
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He was an ANC leader who was jailed.
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Kenya gained independence. Kenyatta led the new nation
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Army leader Joseph Mobutu seized power & changed the countries named Zaire.
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He continued to protest from prison. FW de Klerk south Africas presidents realized apart heid was destroying South Africa.
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FW de Klerk released Mandela from prison and agreed to end a part heid.
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South Africans of all races voted together and Mandela became president. South Africa was truly free.
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Hutu military & milita groups killed & estimated 800,000 to 1 million tutists.
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The Sudanese government supported the herders, while it failed to protect black farmers. Hundreds of thousands of people, mostly black farmers, were killed.
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Civil wars raged and killed several million people.
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Sudan became Independent.
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The king of Morocco responded to peaceful protests. He issued a new constitution that voters approved.
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Protests in Libya against human rights abuses by dictator Muammar Qaddafi. Some countries supported the rebels. Quaddafi was killed in October.
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President Hosni Mubarak arab spring protests forced him to resign.
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Egyptians elected a Islamist president mohammed morsi.
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The military impisioned Morsi and banned his political party