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1400
1400s
The europeans learned of the riches of Africa beyond the Sahara and began to set up colonies. -
1400
1400s
Africans blond the Sahara began trading with Europeans who had recently arrived on their coastlines. -
1500
1500s
African traders began selling enslaved people for guns and other goods. -
1500
1500s
Europeans had built trading post on the African cost. -
1600s
southern and eastern Africa were also colonized. -
1800s
in the early 1800s the slave trade was mostly outlawed. -
1800s
European powers began activity colonizing Africa -
1900s
Africans regained power over their own lands. -
1900s
European nations had divided most of Africa into colonies. -
1910
South Africa gained independence. -
1910
south Africa gained independence from Britain -
1920
people started a political organization. -
1930
Ethiopia was invited by Italy. -
1940
A local political leader promoted the idea of pan-Africanism. -
1948
apartheid got adopted -
1950-1960
Most of Africa gained independence. -
1956
Only a few years after Sudan gained independence southerners rebelled -
1957
Ghana became independent. -
1960
Nigeria became independent -
1960
abruptly granted independence to the Belgian Congo. -
1962
nelson Mandela was a ANC leader who was jailed. -
1963
Kenya gained independence. -
1965
A army leader seized powered changed the country's name. -
1967
An oil-rich region attempted to leave Nigeria -
1989-1994
South Africas present resized that apartheid was destroying South Africa -
1994
Hutu military and militia groups killed 800,000 to 1 mil tutsis. -
2000
mostly black farmers where killed -
2005
civil wars raged and several people where killed. -
2010
A movement for more democracy that came to be known as the Abrab spring -
2011
South Sudan became independent