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1400
Europeans start to sail
The Europeans start to sail to Africa on boats. -
1400
The Africans start to trade beyond the Sahara
In the 1400s Africans start to trade with Europeans beyond the Sahara. -
1500
Slavery
In the 1500s African traders start to trade enslaved people with Europeans for guns and other goods. -
1500
Trading posts
In the 1500s Europeans built trading posts along the African coast. -
Southern and Eastern Africa colonized
In the 1600s Southern and Eastern Africa was colonized by British forces. -
Slavery outlawed
In the 1800s slavery was outlawed. -
Colonization in Africa
In the 1800s Europeans start actively colonizing Africa. -
Africa gets power back
In the 1900s Africans regain power over their land. -
African colonies
In the 1900 Europe divided Africa into colonies. -
South Africa gains independence
in 1910 South Africa gains independence from Great Britain. -
Goal for freedom
In the 1920s An organization was formed with the goal of independence. -
Italy invades
In the 1930s Italy invaded Ethiopia but failed. -
Pan-africanism
In the 1940s A political leader named Kwame Nkrumah promoted the idea of pan-africanism. -
Apartheid
in 1948 South Africa adopts Apartheid. -
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Most of Africa gains independence
From 1950s to 1960s most of Africa gained independence. -
Sudan gains independence
In 1956 Sudan gains independence -
Ghana independent
In 1957 Ghana gained independence. -
Nigerian independence
In the 1960s Nigeria gained independence. -
1960
In the 1960 the Belgium Congo gains independence from Belgium. -
Nelson Mandela goes to jail
in 1962 Nelson Mandela gets in prisoned. -
Kenya gains independence
In 1963 Kenya gains independence from the British. -
Zaire
In 1965 the army leader Joseph Mobutu seized power in the Belgium Congo and renamed it to Zaire. -
Igbo tries to leaves Nigeria
In 1967 an oil rich country named Igbo attempted to leave Nigeria. -
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Apartheid was deemed as bad
from 1989 to 1994 the South Africa's president realized that apartheid was bad. -
Mandela released
In 1990 Nelson Mandela was released from prison. -
Mandela becomes president
In 1994 South Africans of all races voted together and made Nelson Mandela as president. -
Hutu militia groups
In 1994 a Hutu militia group killed 800,000 to 1 million tutsi. -
Black farmers and others killed
in the early 2000s Thousands of people mostly black farmers are killed in a genocide. -
civil war
Civil war in Sudan raged until 2005. -
Arab spring
In 2010 many Africans started a movement called the Arab spring. -
Southern Sudan independence
In 2011 South Sudan gains independence. -
Tunisia's president resigns
in 2011 the Tunisia president resigns from presidency. -
Parlament strengthens
In 2011 the people of morocco voted to take away some rights from the king and that strengthened parliament. -
Qaddafi's demise
In October 2011 the dictator Muammar Qaddafi was killed because of his abuse of human rights. -
Mubarak's resignation
In 2011 the president Hosni Mubarak was forced to resign because of his corrupt way of running things. -
Egypt elections
In 2012 the Egyptian people voted to put a islamic president into power. -
Morsi is banned
In 2013 Morsi (the Egyptian president) got arrested and his political party was banned.