-
1400
voyages
They learned of the riches of the Sahara -
1400
trade
Africans beyond the Sahara began trading -
1500
slave trade
African traders began trading slaves for guns -
1500
trading posts
Europeans began building trading posts -
Africa
Southern and Eastern Africa were colonized -
Colonizing in Africa
European powers began colonizing Africa -
africans
Africans regained power of their own land -
African colonies
European nations had decided most of Africa into colonies -
South Africa
independence came, but not for all africans -
Kenya
People started a political organization and the goal was independence -
Independence movements
African independence movements gained momentum -
Apartheid in South Africa
They adopted apartheid, a former South African policy of strict separation of races -
most of Africa
Most of Africa gained independence -
sudan
Sudan gained independence -
Ghana
Ghana became independent -
Nigeria
Nigeria became independent -
Belgian Congo
Belgium abruptly granted independence to the Belgian Congo -
Nelson Mandela
Nelson was an ANC leader who was jailed -
Kenya
Kenya became independent -
Joseph Mobutu
Joseph Mobutu seized power and changed the country's name to Zaire -
Igbo
An oil rich region controlled by the Igbo attempted to leave Nigeria -
Nelson Mandela
Mandela was released from prison and agreed to end apartheid -
Hutu Military and militia
killed an estimated 800,000 to 1 million tutsis -
Black Farmers
government failed to protect black farmers, so hundreds of thousands of them were killed -
civil war
Civil wars raged and killed more than several million people -
Arab Spring
A movement for a democracy known as Arab Spring began in Tunisia -
South Sudan
South Sudan became independent -
Tunisia's Dictator
resigned, more democratic government was put in place -
Qaddafi
Qaddafi was killed in October of 2011 -
Egyptians
Egyptians elected an islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, in 2012