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For the riches of Africa
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Africans began trading with Europeans
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They began selling enslaved people for guns and other European goods.
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In the 1500s the Europeans had built trading posts on the African coast
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Southern and Eastern Africa were colonized as early as the 1600s. Dutch and British trading companies built supply posts for traders traveling to Asia
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The slave trade was mostly outlawed in the early 1800s
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In the early 1800s the European powers began actively colonizing Africa
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The Africans regained their power over their land
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European nations divided most of Africa into colonies by 1900
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South African Gained independence from Britain in 1910.
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In Kenya , the Kikuyu people started a political organization in the 1920's with a goal of independence.
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Ethiopia was invaded by the Italians in 1930, but it was the only country not colonized.
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African indépendance movements gained momentum in the 1940's in Ghana.
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In 1948, South America adopted apartheid.
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Most of Africa gained the independence in 1950s and 1960s.
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Ghana became independent in 1957
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Nigeria became independent in 1960
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Belgium gave independence to the Belgian Congo in 1960
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Nelson Mandela played a key role in ending apartheid.
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Nelson Mandela was jailed.
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Kenya gained independence in 1963, after many years of fighting the British
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Joseph Mobutu seized power to change a countries name to Zaire.
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Igbo ethnic groups attempted to leave Nigeria. The wanted to created their own county called the Republic of Biafra.
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In 1990 Nelson Mandela was released from prison and he agreed to end apartheid.
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Nelson Mandela continued to protest from prison from 1989-1994
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South Africans voted Mandela to become president.
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Nelson Mandela issued a new constitution that voters approved
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Qaddafi was killed in October, 2011
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President Hosni Mubarak was forced to resign
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Egyptians elected Islamist president Mohammed Morsi in 2012
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The military banned Morsi's political party in 2013. Egypt's government amended the constitution to give power to military and police