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1400
1400s
Europeans started to make long sea voyages because of the riches in Africa. -
1400
1400s
Europeans started trade with Africa -
1500
1500s
African traders sold slaves for European guns -
1500
1500s
Europeans built trading posts on the coast of Africa -
1600s
Europeans slightly colonized southern and Eastern Africa. -
1800s
Europeans started interfering Africa and eventually started taking over -
1900s
African regain control of their land -
1900
Europeans nation divided most of Africa into colonies -
1910
First cases of independence -
1910
South Africa gained independence -
1920s
In Kenya the kikuyu people started a political organization. -
1930s
Ethiopia was invaded by Italy -
1940s
African independence movements began. -
1948
Laws against black Africans limiting their privileges -
1950s
Most of Africa gained independence -
1956
Sudan gained independance -
1957
Ghana became independent -
1960
Nigeria became independent -
1960s
Most of Africa gained independence -
1960
Belgium abruptly gave independence to the Belgian Congo -
1962
Nelson Mandela jailed -
1963
Kenya gained independence. -
1967
An oil-rich area controlled by the Igbo ethnic group attempted to leave Nigeria -
Period: to
1989 - 1994
F.W. de Klerk was president of Africa who agreed to end Apartheid -
1990
F.W. de Klerk released Nelson Mandela from jail -
1994
South Africans all voted for Mandela to become president of Africa -
1994
Huta Military and Militia groups killed 800000 to 1000000 tutsis -
200s
Thousands of people (mostly black farmers) were killed -
2005
Civil wars ended -
2011
South Sudan became independent