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Europeans begin to travel to china and India to find silks and spices for wealth. They find Africa and begin to trade. But slaves were a trade of Africa.
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The Europeans increase the slave trade, and begin to sell the Africans guns and weapons.
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The Europeans starts colonizing the africas and seizing their land.
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Belgium takes control of the Congo and starts putting its people to work. They institute establishments, and ban slavery. But it still devastates the culture of africa
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France takes over most of western North Africa. Spain and Italy take over Morocco and Somalia.
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Kenyans try to get Britain out of Kenya
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The European countries conquer most of Africa. Italy invaded Ethiopia, the only free country, in 1930
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Kwame Nkrumah introduced the idea of Pan-Africanism which was a belief in the unity of all Black Africans worldwide
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White South Africans known as Afrikaners made apartheid law
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The Sudan civil war starts
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Jospeh Mobutu seizes power of Congo and renames it Zaire
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The Igbo of Nigeria try to declare independence
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F.W. de Klerk was elected president of South Africa in 1989.
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Nelson Mandela was freed from prison. He was a protestor of apartheid.
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Nelson Mandela and De Klerk were awarded the Nobel peace prize.
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Nelson Mandela becomes the president of South Africa in 1994
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South Sudan becomes its own country, being the worlds youngest country.
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Dictator of Libya, Qaddafi, was captured and killed in 2011.
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President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Resigns in 2011
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Protesters start protesting through social media
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President of Egypt, Morsi’s term is cut short, and the military takes over government