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1400
Europeans Find Africa
In the 1400s Europeans discover the riches of Africa. -
1400
Sahara began trading
Africans beyond the Sahara began treading with Europeans who had recently arrived on their coastlines -
1500
In the 1500s
African traders began sell ing enslaved people for guns and other European goods -
1500
Beginning in the 1500
Europeans had built trading posts on the African coast. -
the 1660s
Southern and Eastern Africa were also colonized as early as the 1600s. -
the salve trade 1800s
But European interference in Africa continued. -
By the early 1800s
European powers began actively colonizing Africa. -
in the early 1800s
The slave trade was mostly outlawed in the early 1800s. -
by 1900s
European nations had divided most of Africa into colonies. -
in the 1900s
Africans regained power over their own lands. -
in the 1900s
By 1900, European nations had divided most of Africa into colonies -
in the 1910s
South Africa gained gained independence from Britain in 1910 -
in the 1920s
in Kenya the Kikuyu people started a political organization in the 1920s. -
in the 1930s
Ethiopia was invaded by Italy in the 1930s -
in the 1940s
African independence movements gained momentum in the 1940s -
in the 1950
Ghana became independent in 1950. -
in 1956s
southerners rebelled against northern rule. -
in the 1956s
sudan
gained
independent
dence in 1956s -
The Belgian Congo in 1960s
Belgian abruptly granted inde pendence to the Belgian
Congo in 1960s -
in the 1960s
Nigeria became independent in 1960s. -
in the 1960
Belgium abruptly granted inde pemdence to the Belgian Congo in 1960s. -
in the 1963
Kenya gained independence in the 1963 -
in the 1965s
in 1965, army leader Joseph Mobutu seized power and changed the country"s name to Zaire -
in the 1990s
1990, he released Mandela from prison and agreed to end apartheid. -
ln the 1994
write alit of questions you have about how modern Africa took shape -
in the 1994s
During a few months in 1994 Hutu military and militia groups killed an estimated 800,000 to 1 mil lion tutsis -
conflicts in sudan 2005s
Civil wars raged until 2005 and killed several million people. -
in the 2010s
in 2010, a movement for more democracy that came to be known as the Amrab Spring began in Tunisia. -
in the 2011s
In 2011south Sudan became independent. -
in the 2011s
Tunisias dictator resigned in January of 2011 and a more democratic government was put in place