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1400
Golden age of exploration
Europeans begin to travel to china and India to find silks and spices for wealth. They find Africa and begin to trade. But slaves were a trade of Africa. -
1500
Increase in African slave trade
The Europeans increase the slave trade, and begin to sell the Africans guns and weapons. -
Europe starts colonization
The Europeans starts colonizing the africas and seizing their land.
Britain starts by buying the Suez Canal. And then conquering the rest of egypt. -
The Belgium Congo.
Belgium takes control of the Congo and starts putting its people to work. They institute establishments, and ban slavery. But it still devastates the culture of africa -
Take over
France takes over most of western North Africa. Spain and Italy take over Morocco and Somalia. -
South Africa is Independent from Great Britain
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Kenya fights the british
Kenyans try to get Britain out of Kenya -
Nearly all of africa is European.
The European countries conquer most of Africa. Italy invaded Ethiopia, the only free country, in 1930 -
Ghana believes in unity
Kwame Nkrumah introduced the idea of Pan-Africanism which was a belief in the unity of all Black Africans worldwide -
Apartheid
White South Africans known as Afrikaners made apartheid law -
Sudan becomes Independent
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Start of the Sudan Civil war
The Sudan civil war starts -
Nigera becomes independent
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Belgium Congo becomes Independent
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Kenya becomes independent
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Joseph Mobutu seizes power
Jospeh Mobutu seizes power of Congo and renames it Zaire -
End of 1st Sudan Civil war
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The Igbo declares independence
The Igbo of Nigeria try to declare independence -
Start of 2nd Sudan civil war
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F.W de Klerk is elected president of South Africa
F.W. de Klerk was elected president of South Africa in 1989. -
Nelson Mandela is freed
Nelson Mandela was freed from prison. He was a protestor of apartheid. -
Apartheid is ended
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Nobel peace prize
Nelson Mandela and De Klerk were awarded the Nobel peace prize. -
1994 election
Nelson Mandela becomes the president of South Africa in 1994 -
End of 2nd Sudan Civil war
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South Sudan is independent from Sudan
South Sudan becomes its own country, being the worlds youngest country. -
Dictator of Libya is assassinated
Dictator of Libya, Qaddafi, was captured and killed in 2011. -
President of Egypt resigns
President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, Resigns in 2011 -
Protests in Tunisia
Protesters start protesting through social media -
Egypt under military control
President of Egypt, Morsi’s term is cut short, and the military takes over government