-
The European start sail to try and shorten the trip to Asia and China
-
People and good are starting to be traded
-
The europeans started to build trading post in Africa
-
Europeans are starting to colonizing Africa for the resources
-
Europeans have colonized almost all of Africa
-
South Africa was granted freedom from Great Britain. However white people controlled the government and businesses.
-
Kikuyu people, who are in Kenya, form a political organization
-
italy invaded the only country that was uncolonized which was Ethiopia
-
In Gana the idea of Pan-Africanism which got all blacks together
-
Afrikaners, which are white South Africans, made the apartheid law. Apartheid is a polity of legal separation which is based of race.
-
mid 1900 the Africans starts to revolt due to the events in World War Two
-
Sudan, who was under rule by Great Britain, gained independence. The country's government was put in the northern part of the country.
-
The south began to revolt against the north which started a civil war.
-
Ghana gain it independence from the colonization
-
After a lot of struggles Nigeria is free after being rules by British
-
After gaining freedom they had trouble having a stable government.
-
Rwanda is free after violence broke out and the Hutu took control.
-
After many years Kenya is finally free
-
Mandela, a protester of apartheid, was arrested and was sentenced to prison for life. However he would not be quiet and protested from prison.
-
After the unstable government Joseph Mobutu get power of Belgium Congo. Had power for 32 years
-
The first civil war ended.
-
The igbo people tried to become independent. They called their country Biafra. These actions caused a civil war, which over a million people died.
-
Once again the south revolted and started yet another civil war.
-
F.W de Klerk was elected president of South Africa. He realized that apartheid needed to end.
-
Klerk put a end to apartheid. He also released Mandela from prison. Finally after 42 years of apartheid it has finally ended.
-
The Nobel Peace Prize is given to both Mandela and Klerk. These two people put in a lot of work to end apartheid.
-
South Africa finally had their first open election. Nelson Mandela, who help end apartheid, was elected president.
-
The Hutu tried to get rid of the Tutsi people. And the violence continued. Between 800,000 and a million people died.
-
Finally the second civil war in Sudan ends. Millions of people died in the wars.
-
The people in Tunisia begin to want a more democratic form of government.
-
Sudan finally see the independence that South Sudan wanted.
-
The United States help the rebels fight against Qaddafi. Qaddafi was the dictator of Libya at the time. He was then captured and killed.