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