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Europeans began to make longs sea voyages
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Sahara began trading with Europeans
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African traders began selling enslaved people for guns and other European goods
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Europeans built trading post on the African Coast
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European power began actively colonizing Africa.
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Southern and Eastern Africa was colonized
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Slave trade was outlawed in the early 1800s.
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Several European powers controlled different parts of Africa.
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European nations had divided most of Africa into colonies.
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Most of Africa gained independence
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In Kenya, people started organizing in the 1920s with the goal to be independent from Britain.
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Ethiopia was never colonized, even though it was invaded bu Italy.
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Africa independence movements gained momentum.
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Apartheid was adopted in 1948.
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Sudan gained independence after all of its conflict.
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Ghana became independent in 1957.
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Nigeria became independent.
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Belgium abruptly granted independence to the Belgian Congo.
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Nelson Mendela was jailed, but continued to protest in prison.
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Kenya gained independence.
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Joseph Mobutu seized power and changed the country's name to Zaire.
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Mandela was released from prison and F.W de Klerk agreed to end apartheid.
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Mandela became president because, all South African races voted together.
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South Africa is independent and has truly been set free, because of Nelson Mandela.
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Hutu military and militia groups killed around 800,000 to 1 minion tutsis.
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Hundreds of thousands of people were killed, mostly black farmers.
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Civil wars raged and killed several million people.
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The Arab Spring began in 2010
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In 2011, South Sudan became independent.
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Qaddafi was killed in October of 2011.
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