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In the 1400s the Europeans began to make long sea voyages
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In the 1500s African Traders began selling enslaved people for guns, and other goods.
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Beginning in the 1500s Europeans began to build trading post on the African coast
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Souther and Eastern Africa were colonized as early as the 1600s
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In the 1800s selling enslaved people began to become mostly outlawed.
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In the 1800s European powers began actively colonizing Africa
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The 1900s is when Africans began to regain power over all their land.
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By 1900 European nations had divided most of Africa into colonies
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In South Africa independence came as early as 1910
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In 1910 South Africa gained independence from Britain
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People in Kenya and Kikuyu started a political organization in the 1920s with the goal of independence from Britain.
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Ethiopia was the only country that remained independent after being invaded in the 1930s
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Africa had independence movements that finally started to gain 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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Finally most of African became independent
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Only after Sudan gained independence did the southerners rebel against the northern rule in 1956
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In 1957 Ghana finally became independent
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After a long journey Nigeria finally became independent in 1960
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Belgium abruptly granted independence to the Belgian Congo in 1960
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In 1962 Nelson Madela who was a ANC leader who was jailed in 1962
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After years of negotiation and finally violence Between Kenya and the British, Kenya gained independence in 1963
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In 1965 army leader Joseph Mobutu seized power and changed the country's name to Zaire after the traditional name for the Congo River
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In1967 the oil-rich region controlled by Igbo ethnic group attempted to leave Nigeria
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From 1989 to 1994 the president of South Africa realized that apartheid was destroying South Africa
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In 1990 the president of South Africa released Mandela from prison
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In 1994 Madela became the first black president of South Africa
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IN 1994 Hutu military and militia groups killed around an estimated 800,000 to 1 million Tutsis
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In the early 2000s hundreds of millions of black farmers were killed
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There were many civil wars in Africa for independence but only after several million people were killed did the wars end in 2005
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The Arab Spring was a movement for more democracy that began in Tunisia during 2010
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Southern Sudan became independent only in 2011
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In January of 2011 Tunisia's Dictator Resigned and was replaced
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In 2013 the military imprisoned Morsi and banned his political party