Africa Timeline

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  • 1400

    Sea Voyages

    Europeans began to make longs sea voyages
  • 1400

    Sahara Trading

    Sahara began trading with Europeans
  • 1500

    African Traders

    African traders began selling enslaved people for guns and other European goods
  • 1500

    Built trading post

    Europeans built trading post on the African Coast

  • Actively Colonizing Africa

    European power began actively colonizing Africa.

  • Southern and Eastern Africa

    Southern and Eastern Africa was colonized

  • Slave Trade

    Slave trade was outlawed in the early 1800s.

  • European Powers

    Several European powers controlled different parts of Africa.

  • Africa into colonies

    European nations had divided most of Africa into colonies.

  • Africa gained independence

    Most of Africa gained independence

  • Kenya wants to be independent

    In Kenya, people started organizing in the 1920s with the goal to be independent from Britain.

  • Ethiopia was never colonized

    Ethiopia was never colonized, even though it was invaded bu Italy.

  • Africa gained indépendance

    Africa independence movements gained momentum.

  • Apartheid was adopted

    Apartheid was adopted in 1948.

  • Sudan gained Independence

    Sudan gained independence after all of its conflict.

  • Ghana became Independent

    Ghana became independent in 1957.

  • Nigeria became independent

    Nigeria became independent.

  • Belgium granted independence

    Belgium abruptly granted independence to the Belgian Congo.

  • Nelson Mendela was jailed

    Nelson Mendela was jailed, but continued to protest in prison.

  • Kenya gained independence.

    Kenya gained independence.

  • Country name to Zaire

    Joseph Mobutu seized power and changed the country's name to Zaire.

  • Mandela released from prison

    Mandela was released from prison and F.W de Klerk agreed to end apartheid.

  • Mandela became president

    Mandela became president because, all South African races voted together.

  • South Africa is Independent

    South Africa is independent and has truly been set free, because of Nelson Mandela.

  • Conflict on Genocide

    Hutu military and militia groups killed around 800,000 to 1 minion tutsis.

  • Lots of people were killed

    Hundreds of thousands of people were killed, mostly black farmers.

  • Civil wars raged

    Civil wars raged and killed several million people.

  • Arab Spring

    The Arab Spring began in 2010

  • South Sudan is Independent

    In 2011, South Sudan became independent.

  • Qaddafi was killed

    Qaddafi was killed in October of 2011.