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The Europeans began sailing south around Africa attempting to find spices and silks found in India and China. The Europeans found out about Africas great wealth, the Europeans then began trading with Africans south of the Sahara.
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European traders began selling the Africans weapons and European made goods for slaves.
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The Europeans began building trading posts in Africa
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The Europeans began colonizing and taking over countries for their resources..
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by the 1900's Europe had nearly owned all of Africa.
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in the year 1910 the South African's were freed from Britain
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The Kikuyu people began to form a political organization in the 1920s to fight Great Britains power and retake their land.
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in the year 1930 the Italians invaded Ethiopia, failing and Ethiopia remaining independent.
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In the mid 1900s the Africans began to rebel against colonization.
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In the 1940s Kwame Nkrumah displayed the idea of Pan-Africanism which said that all African people, African American, African European etc. are all Africans so they should be united worldwide.
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Ghana regained their independence in the year 1957.
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Afrikaners made an apartheid law
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Sudan gained its independence from Gr. Br. in 1956
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The first civil war took place in 1956, the southern side of Sudan did not like the northern rule so they rebelled and eventually this ended up being a civil war lasting many years.
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After a lot of years of war and protests Nigeria has became independent
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The Belgian Congo becomes independent
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Independence came to Rwanda
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after years of consistent warfare Kenya finally regained their independence.
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in 1964 Nelson Mandela protested the apartheid law, as a result he was arrested and sentenced to life in prison.
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the first civil war ended.
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The Igbo people (after many years of violence) attempted to declare themselves independent
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de Klerk ordered the release of Nelson Mandela
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The second civil war between the south and north side of Sudan begins.
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F.W. de Klerk was elected president of South Africa
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de Klerk announced the end of the apartheid
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Mandela and de Klerk were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for ending the apartheid law
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In 1994 the first open election was held electing Nelson Mandela the president of South Africa
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After Rwandas declared independence in 1962, violence broke out. The Hutu people took control of Rwanda. Violence consisted until 1994.
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The Hutu people began a mass genocide of the Tutsi people. The mass Genocide lead to the death of between 800,000 and 1,000,000 people.
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The second Sudanese civil war ends.
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The Tunisian people began agitating for a more democratic government.
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Qaddafi was captured and eventually killed
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South Sudan was recognized as an independent place, completely separate from Sudan.
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President Ben Ali resigned, a democratic government was elected because of it.
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Mubarak came to power and led for 30 years, but then was forced to resign.
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Mohammed Morsi came to power in 2012
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Morsi term was short as the military over threw the government