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Afircan national congress forms and other organizations lead the opposition to aparthied
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The free French movement of Charles de Gaulle
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The Kwame Nkruman returns to Gold Coast to fight for independece
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ended in the 1960's- Algerian economy becomes better due to economic growth and growing support for liberation
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Mau Mau fighters and settlers engage in violence leading to Mau Mau leaders being hunted down and resettling the Kikuyu in fortified vilages to prevent contact. British declared a state of emergency
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Algerian revolt
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FLN was created and supported by Egypt and other Arab countries acting on the principle that all Arab people should be able to choose their own government
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Kwame Nkruman becomes prime minister of Ghana and full independence came
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Charle De Gaulle returned to power in France during Algerian war
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Britian granted independence to its other western African colonies
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Sekou Toure lead Gunie to gain full independence
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African guerrila movements against Portuguese rule in Angola and Mozambique
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Kenyatta is released and negotiates with the British to write a constitution for an independent Kenya
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Algeria won independence and angry colonists returned to France
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Nkruman elected first president of Republic of Kenya
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Mobuto Sese Seko siezed reign in a military coup that included assassination of Patrice Lumumba, first prime minister and held on in regions most corrupt government.
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after a ten year fight, European settlers in the British colony of Southern Rhodesia accepted African majority rule.
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a new constitution was created called multiracial state