Africa Colonialism

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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