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Europeans began to make long sea voyages
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Africans beyond the Sahara began trading with Europeans who had recently arrived on their coastlines
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Europeans had built trading posts on the African Coast.
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African traders began selling enslaved people for guns and other European goods.
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Africa was colonized as early as the 1600s
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The Slave trade was mostly outlawed
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European powers began actively colonizing Africa
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Africans regained power over their own lands.
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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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South Africa gained independence from Britain in 1910
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In Kenya, the Kikuyu people started a political organization in the 1920s
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The only country that was never colonized was Ethiopia, though it was invaded by Italy in the 1930s.
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African independence movements gained momentum in the 1940s
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In 1948, they adopted apartheid, a former South African policy.
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Most of Africa gained independence in the 1950s and 1960s
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Southerners rebelled against northern rule
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Ghana became independent in 1957
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Nigeria became independent in 1960
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Belgium abruptly granted independence to the Belgian Congo in 1960
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He was an ANC leader who was jailed in 1962
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Kenya gained independence
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In 1965, army leader Joseph Mobutu seized power and changed the country's name to Zaire.
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In 1967, an oil-rich region controlled by the Igbo ethnic group attempted to leave Nigeria
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Mandela was released from prison and agreed to end apartheid
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South Africans of all races voted together and Mandela becam president
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Hutu Military and militia groups killed an estimated 800,000 to 1 million Tutsis
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Hundred of thousands of people, mostly black farmers, were killed in the early 200s
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Civil Wars raged until 2005 and killed several million people
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A movement for more democracy that came to be know as the Arab Spring began in Tunisia
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In 2011, South Sudan became independent
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Tunisia's dictator resigned in January of 2011 and a more democratic government was put in place