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