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1400
Europeans explore Africa in the 1400s
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1500
Slavery
Europeans begin taking slaves and exchanging them for guns and African goods -
Colonization
Europeans begin colonizing g and taking over African countries -
Full control
By 1900 Europe had almost full control of Africa -
South African independence
South Africa gains independence in 1910 -
Italians invade Ethiopia
Italy invades Ethiopia, this might have inspired Africans to fight against colonizers -
Pan Africanism
Kwame Nkrumah Introduces pan africanism, which is a belief that all black Africans world wide should be united -
Apartheid
In 1948 white Africans started apartheid in South Africa -
First Sudanese civil war
After decolonization Sudan spirals into a civil war of the north vs south, the first civil war lasts 1955-1972 -
Sudanese independence
Sudan gains independence from Great Britain -
Ghanas independence
On march 6th 1957, Ghana gains its independence from Great Britain -
Belgian Congo independence
Belgian congo gains independence, but its government is struglgling -
Nigerian independence
Nigeria gains independence -
Hutu take control of Rwanda
The Hutu ethnic group take control of Rwanda -
Rwandan independence
Rwanda gains independence from Belgium -
Kenyan independence
Kenya gains independence from Great Britain -
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela is arrested and gets a life sentence -
Joseph Mobutu
Joseph Mobutu Takes power of the Congo -
Nigerian civil war
In 1967 the Igbo ethnic group declared themselves independent and started a civil war in Nigeria -
Steven Biko
On September 12th 1977, Steven Biko, a member of the African national congress who worked to rid apartheid was jailed and killed by South African authorities -
Second Sudanese civil war
In 1983 the second Sudanese civil war starts, it ended in 2005. It was largely started by an attempt to bring sharia law to Sudan. -
F.W de clerk is elected president of South Africa
F.w de clerk is elected, later he would end apartheid -
The end of apartheid
F.W De clerk ends apartheid -
Nobel peace prize
Nelson mandela and F. W de Clerk are awat\reed Nobel peace prizes -
Rwandan genocide
Hutus start killing Tutsis, the other ethnic group in Rwanda. Eventually Tutsis fight back and take control of rwanda and restore peace, the genocide lasted months -
Nelson Mandela is elected
Nelson Mandela becomes president of South Africa -
Arab spring
In Tunisia people start protesting for a more democratic government which starts Arab spring -
Tunisia reforms
The leader of Tunisia, Ben Ali flees Tunisia and a democratic government is formed -
South Sudanese independence
South Sudan gains independence from Sudan -
Libya
In 2011, Libyan rebels capture and kill mammary Qaddafi, a democratic Libyan government is then formed, though after this there is more violence in Libya -
Egyptian revolt
Egypts new Islamic government is overthrown