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1400
1400s
Europeans began to make long sea, they also learned of the richest of Africa beyond the Sahara and began to set up colonies. -
1500
1500s
African traders began selling enslaved people for guns and other European goods. -
1500
1500s
Europeans had built trading posts on the African coast. -
1600s
Southern and Eastern Africa were also colonized. -
1800s
The slave trade was mostly outlawed, but Europeans interference in Africa. -
1800s
Europeans power began actively colonizing Africa. -
1900s
Africans regained power over their own lands. -
1900s
European nations had divided most of Africa into colonies. -
1910s
In South Africa, independence came as early. -
1910s
South Africa gained independence from Britain. -
1920s
In Kenya, the Kikuyu people started a political organization. -
1930s
The only country that was never colonized was Ethiopia, though ut was invaded by Italy. -
1940s
African independence movements gained momentum. -
1948s
They adopted apartheid, a former South African policy of strict separation of races. -
1950s
Most of Africa gained independence. -
1956s
Southerns rebelled against northern rule. -
1957s
Ghana became independent. -
1960s
Nigeria became independent. -
1960s
Most of Africa gained independence. -
1960s
Belgium abruptly granted independence to the Belgium Congo. -
1962s
Nelson Mandela was an ANC leader who was jailed. -
1963s
After years of negotiation and finally violence between the British and Kenyan fighter, Kenya gained independence. -
1965s
Army leader Joseph Mobutu seized power and changed the country's name to Zaire, after a traditional name for the Congo River. -
1967s
An oil-rich region controlled by the Igbo ethnic group attended to leave Nigeria. -
1989s
F.W. de Klerk, South Africa's president. -
1990s
He released Mandela from prison and agreed to end apartheid. -
1994s
F.W. de Klerk, South Africa's president stopped being president. -
1994s
South Africans of all races voted together and Mandela became president. -
1994s
During a few months, Hutu military and military groups killed 800,000 to 1 million Tutsis. -
2000s
Hundreds of thousand of people, mostly black farmers, were killed. -
2005s
Civil war was raged, and killed several million people. -
2010s
A movement for more democracy that came to be known as the Arab Springs began in Tunisia. -
2011s
South Sudan became independent. -
2011s
Issued a new constitution that voters approved. -
2011s
Qaddafi was killed in October, but the new government that formed did not have the support of all the rebel groups. -
2011s
Arab Springs protests forced him to resign. -
2012s
Egyptians elected an Islamist president, Mohammed Moris. -
2013s
The military imprisoned Morsi and banned his political party.