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when europeans began to make long sea voyages in the 1400s, they learned of the riches of Africa beyond the Sahara and began to set up colonies
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in the 1400s, africans beyond the Sahara began trading with europeans who had recently arrived on their coastlines
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beginning in the 1500s europeans had built trading post on the African coast
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in the 1500s, African traders began selling enslaved people.
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southern and Eastern Africa were also colonized as early as the 1600s
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the slave trade was mostly outlawed in the early 1800s
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by the early 1800s European powers began actively colonizing Africa.
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several European powers controlled different parts of Africa in the early 1900s
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by 1900, European nations had divided most of Africa into colonies.
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african countries gained independence mainly during the mid 1900s
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in the 1900s, africans regained power over their own land
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apartheid in South Africa South Africa gained independence from Britain in 1910.
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people started a political organization in the 1920s with the goal of independence from Britain
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the only country that was never colonized was Ethiopia, though it was invaded by Italy in the 1930s.
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African independence movement gained momentum in the 1940s.
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in 1948, they adopted apartheid, a former South African policy of strict separation of races.
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only a few years after Sudan gained independence in 1956.
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Ghana became independent in 1957
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Nigeria became independence in 1960.
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most of Africa gained indolence in the 1950s and 1960s.
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he was an ANC leader who was jailed in 1962
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nelson Mandela was arrested for protesting apartheid in 1962.
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after years of negotiation and finally violence between the British and Kenyan fighters, Kenya gained independence in 1963.
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in 1965 army leader Joseph Mobutu seized power name for the Congo river
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by 1967, an oil-rich region controlled by the Igbo.
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in 1990, he released Mandela from prison and agreed to end apartheid.
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he won the Nobel peace prize with F.W. de Klerk in 1993.
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look at the south africans waiting in line to vote when that country had its first fully democratic election in 1994
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F.W. de Klerk, south Africa's president from 1989 to 1994, realized that apartheid was destroying South Africa.
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during a few months in 1994, Hutu military and militia groups killed and estimates 800,000 to 1 million Tutsis.
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hundreds of thousands of people, mostly black farmers, were killed in the early 200s
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civil wars raged until 2005 and killed several million people.
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in 2011, South Sudan became independent.