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1400
1400s
in the 1400s the Europeans travel the sea and learned the riches of africa -
1400
1400s
Africans have begun trading with the Europeans -
1500
1500s
the African traders began selling enslaved people for guns and other European goods -
1500
1500s
The Europeans began to build trading post on the African coast -
1600s
Southern and Eastern Africa were also colonized in the early 1600s -
1800s
Europeans started taking over africa -
Period: to
1800s-now
slave trade was out lawed -
1900s
The Africans gained power in their own lands -
1900s
the Europeans colonized most of Africa -
1910
south Africa independence came as early as 1910 -
1910
South Africa Gained independence from Britain -
1920s
Kikuyu people started an organization with a goal of Britain getting independence -
1930s
the only country that was ever colonized was Ethiopia, then was invaded by Italy in the 1930s -
1940s
African independence movements gained momentum -
1948
in 1948, they adopted apartheid, a former South African policy of strict separation of races -
1950s-1960s
most of Africa became independent in the 1950s-1960s -
1956
Only a few years after Sudan gained independence in 1956, southern rebelled against northern rule -
1957
Ghana became independent in 1957 -
1960s
nigeria became independent in 1960 -
1960
Belgium granted independence to the Belgian Congo in 1960 -
1962
Nelson Mandela played a key role in ending apartheid, he was an ANC leader who was jailed 1962 -
1963
Kenya gained independence -
1967
an oil-rich region controlled by the Igbo -
1989-1994
South Africa's present realized that apartheid was destroying South Africa -
1990
in 1990, he released Mandela from prison and agreed to end apartheid -
1994
South Africans of all races voted together and Mandela became president -
1994
During a few months in 1994, Hutu militia groups killed an estimated 800,000- 1 million Tutsis -
early 2000s
hundreds of people died, mostly black farmers -
2005
Civil wars raged until 2005 and killed several million people -
2010
In 2010, a movement for more democracy that came that came to be known as the Arab Spring began in Tunisia -
2011
in 2011, South Sudan became independent -
2011
Tunisia's dictator resigned in January of 2011 and more democratic government was put in place -
2011
he issued a new constitution that voters approved in 2011 -
2011
Qaddafi was killed in October of 2011, but the new government that formed did not have the support of all the rebel groups