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Europeans began to make long sea, they also learned of the richest of Africa beyond the Sahara and began to set up colonies.
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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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Southern and Eastern Africa were also colonized.
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The slave trade was mostly outlawed, but Europeans interference in Africa.
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Europeans power began actively colonizing Africa.
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Africans regained power over their own lands.
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European nations had divided most of Africa into colonies.
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In South Africa, independence came as early.
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South Africa gained independence from Britain.
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In Kenya, the Kikuyu people started a political organization.
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The only country that was never colonized was Ethiopia, though ut was invaded by Italy.
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African independence movements gained momentum.
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They adopted apartheid, a former South African policy of strict separation of races.
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Most of Africa gained independence.
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Southerns rebelled against northern rule.
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Ghana became independent.
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Nigeria became independent.
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Most of Africa gained independence.
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Belgium abruptly granted independence to the Belgium Congo.
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Nelson Mandela was an ANC leader who was jailed.
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After years of negotiation and finally violence between the British and Kenyan fighter, Kenya gained independence.
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Army leader Joseph Mobutu seized power and changed the country's name to Zaire, after a traditional name for the Congo River.
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An oil-rich region controlled by the Igbo ethnic group attended to leave Nigeria.
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F.W. de Klerk, South Africa's president.
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He released Mandela from prison and agreed to end apartheid.
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F.W. de Klerk, South Africa's president stopped being president.
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South Africans of all races voted together and Mandela became president.
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During a few months, Hutu military and military groups killed 800,000 to 1 million Tutsis.
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Hundreds of thousand of people, mostly black farmers, were killed.
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Civil war was raged, and killed several million people.
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A movement for more democracy that came to be known as the Arab Springs began in Tunisia.
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South Sudan became independent.
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Issued a new constitution that voters approved.
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Qaddafi was killed in October, but the new government that formed did not have the support of all the rebel groups.
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Arab Springs protests forced him to resign.
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Egyptians elected an Islamist president, Mohammed Moris.
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The military imprisoned Morsi and banned his political party.