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Africans and Europeans begin trading goods for people.
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Europeans sell guns and goods for Human slages
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Europeans build trade posts on the West Coast of Africa.
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Europeans begin taking over African countries for resources.
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Europeans Colonize nearly every country for themselves.
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Great Britain leaves South Africa, now an independent country.
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The Kikuyu people rigorously fight for independence from Britain in Kenya.
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Italy invades Ethiopia, one of the last independent African countries.
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People like Kwame Nkrumah rebel against colonial rulers.
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Afrikaners set up Apartheid Law in South Africa against black people.
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Sudan becomes independent from Britain.
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Sudanese people riot and fight each other over their government.
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People in Ghana rebel and gain independent rule over their country.
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After a struggle with Britain, Nigeria is independence.
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The people in Belgian Kongo revolt against Belgium.
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The people of Rwanda gain independence from colonial rule. Fighting begins.
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People in Kenya gain independence from Great Britain.
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Nelson Mandela, a civil rights activist, is arrested for life in South Africa.
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People in Rwanda stop fighting, as the Hutu began committing genocide against the Tutsi people.
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Joseph Mobutu declares himself ruler of the Belgian Congo.
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Mobutu renames the Belgian Congo Zaire.
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The people of Sudan halt the fighting amongst them.
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The Igbo people attempt to gain power in Nigeria.
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The people fo Sudan begin fighting each other again.
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F.W. De Klerk becomes president of South Africa, ending apartheid rule.
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Nelson Mandela is let out of prison
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For the first time, people in South Africa are aloud to vote in free elections.
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The latter of Sudan's Civil wars ends.
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People in Tunisia fight their rulers for independence.
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Sudan recognizes South Sudan's independence because of the civil War.