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1400
Europeans make sea voyages
Europeans started to make long sea voyages to Africa beyond the Sahara. -
1400
Africans begin trading
Africans started to trade with the Europeans, who had just got to their coastlines. -
1500
Africans sell slaves
African traders started to sell enslaved people. -
1500
Europeans build trading posts
Europeans started to build trading posts on African coasts. -
Southern and Eastern Africa were colonized
Southern and Eastern Africa were colonized in at least the 1600s. -
Slave trade was outlawed
Slave trade was mostly outlawed, but people continued to have slaves. -
Europeans began colonizing Africa
Europeans began to colonize Africa. -
Africans get their land
Africans got their lands back -
Europeans divides Africa into colonies
Europeans had divided most of Africa into colonies by 1900. -
South Africa gets freedom
South Africa got independence in 1910 -
Kikuyu started a political organization
Kikuyu started a political organization in hopes of independence from Britain. -
Ethiopia was invaded
Ethiopia was invaded by the Italians. -
Independence movements gain momentum
African Independence movements gained momentum. -
Africa adopted apartheid
South Africa adopted apartheid. -
oil-rich region attempts to leave Nigeria.
An oil-rich (that was controlled by the Igbo) region attempts to leave Nigeria. -
Africa gets independence
Most of Africa gets independence in the 1950s-60s -
Nigeria gets independence
Nigeria gets independence from the British. -
Ghana became independent
Ghana became independent in 1957. -
Belgian Congo gets independence
Belgium granted the Belgian Congo freedom in 1960. -
Nelson Mandela was put in jail.
Nelson Mandela was put in jail in 1962. -
Kenya gets independence
Kenya gets independence from the British. -
Joseph Mobutu changes the name
Joseph Mobutu changes the name of the Belgian Congo to Zaire in 1965 -
Nelson Mandela was released
Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990. -
Nelson Mandela became president
Nelson Mandela became president in 1994. -
Many black farmers die
Many black farmers were killed in the early 2000s because of the genocide. -
Civil wars ended
Some civil wars ended in 2005 -
A new constitution
The king of Morocco responded to protests by placing a new constitution -
Qaddafi dies
Dictator Muammar Qaddafi was killed in October. -
Mubarak resigned
President Hosni Mubarak was forced to resign by the Arab Spring protests. -
South Sudan gets independence
South Sudan gained independence in 2011. -
Mohammed Morsi becomes president
Mohammed Morsi was elected president in 2012. -
Morsi was imprisoned
Morsi was put in jail by the military in 2013