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1400
1400s
When Europeans began to make long sea voyages in the 1400s -
1400
1400
In the 1400s, Africans beyond the Sahara began trading with Europeans who had recently arrived on their coastlines -
1500
1500
In the 1500s, African traders began selling enslaved people for guns and other Europeans goods. -
1500
1500
Begging 1500s, Europeans had built trading post on the African coast -
1600
Southern and Eastern Africa were also collided as early as the 1600s. -
1600
Southern and Eastern Africa were also colonized as early as the 1600s -
1800
The slave trade was mostly outlawed in the early 1800s, Europeans interference in Africa continued -
1800
By the early 1800s, Europeans powers began actively colonizing Africa -
1900
In the 1900s, Africans regained power over their own lands -
1900
By 1900, Europeans nations had divided most of Africa into colonies -
1910
In South Africa, independence came early as 1910 -
1920
People started a political organization in the 1920s -
1930s
The only country that was never colonized was Ethiopia, though it was invaded by Italy in the 1930s -
1940
African independence movements gained momentum in the 1940s -
1948
In 1948, they adopted apartheid, a farmer South African policy of strict separation of races. -
1956
Only a few years after Sudan gained independence in 1956, southerners rebelled against northern rule. -
1957
Ghana became independent in 1957 -
1960
Nigeria became independence in 1960 -
1960
Belgium abruptly granted independence to the Belgium Congo in 1960 -
1962
Nelson Mandela was an ANC leader who was jailed in 1962 -
1963
Kenya gained independence in 1963 -
1965
In 1965, army leader Joseph Mobutu seized power and changed the country's name to Zaire (zah eer), after a traditional name for the Congo River. -
1967
By 1967, an oil-rich region controlled by the Igbo (IG both, also called Ibo) ethnic group attempted to leave Nigeria. -
1994
In 1994, South Africans of all races voted together and Mandela became president. -
2005
Civil wars raged until 2005 and killed several million people -
2011
In 2011, South Sudan became independence -
2011
king of Morocco issued a new constitution that voters approved in 2011. -
2011
Qaddafi was killed in October of 2011. -
2011
Arab Spring protests forced him to resign in 2011 -
2012
Egyptians elected an Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, in 2012.