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