Imperialisim in Africa

  • 1400

    European trade

    In 1400 the Europeans started to trade with people living in Africa south of the Sahara
  • 1500

    European Slavery

    In the 1500s the Europeans traded guns for for slaves.
  • 1500

    Trading post

    Europeans started to build the trading post in Africa
  • European colonizing

    In the 1800s the europeans had started to colonize
  • European taking over

    In the 1900s Europeans had taken over almost all of Africa
  • Granted independence

    in 1910 South Africa was granted independence by Great Britain
  • fighting for freedom

    around the 1920s Kenya's organization fought for freedom against Great Britain
  • Italy invading

    Italy started to invade Ethiopia
  • Kenya's independents

    In 1936 Kenya gained their independents
  • Kwame Nkrumah's idea

    Kwame Nkrumah came up with the idea of pan-Africanism
  • Apartheid law

    South Africa people made the Apartheid law
  • Africans Rebel

    From the events of World War 2, Africans began to rebel against colonization
  • Sudan

    Sudan gained their independence form Great Britain
  • Gaining Independence

    Around 1957s Ghana was going to gain their independence
  • Nigeria's independence

    Nigeria became independent around 1960 after a stubble with the British
  • independents in Belgium

    in 1960 Belgium became independent
  • Rawanda

    Rwanda gained independence after violence happened and the Hutu took over
  • Mandela

    Mandela was arrested and put into jail for his actions
  • sizing power

    Joseph Mobutu seized power around 1965
  • Igbo people

    the Igbo people tried to declare themselves as independent
  • F.W. de klerk

    F.W. was elected president in south Arica around 1989
  • The end

    F.W released Mandela and ended the apartheid
  • The Noble Prize

    Mandela and F.W de Klerk were awarded the Noble Prize for their actions in stopping the Apartheid
  • first elections

    around 1994 South Africa held their first open elections. Mandela was elected new president of South Africa
  • more violence in Rwanda

    they continued to experience violence. But finally Hutu stopped
  • Tunisia

    they began to want more democratic government
  • south sudan

    Sudan recognized south Sudans independence
  • Ben Ali

    Ben Ali resigned and a more democratic government was elected
  • Qaddafi

    Qaddafi had been captured and killed. A new government was than elected.
  • resigning

    Mubarak was forced to resign
  • replaced

    he was replaced by a Islamic fundamentalist government
  • Mori's Term

    his term was short because his government was overthrown by the military