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