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Europeans started exploring Africa to try and find silk and spices. -
Europeans give Africans guns and European made goods for slaves. -
Europeans start building trading posts in Africa. -
Europe takes over nearly all of Africa. -
Africans rebel against colonization. -
In 1910 South Africa was able to be independent from Great Britain. -
South Africa was granted independence from Great Britain. -
Kenya began an organization to “Fight for Freedom.” -
Italy invades Ethiopia -
Kwai Nkrumah advocates the idea of pan-africanism. This was fighting for African citizens to have the same rights American citizens have in the United States. -
Rwanda continue to experience violence until 1944 when Hulu began to engage in genocide against the Tutsi people. -
Afrikaners made a law that blacks and whites were separated. -
In 1956 Sudan gained independence from Great Britain. -
Pan-africanism Gave Komo Kenyatta an inspiration to fight for Africa’s slaves. -
After a long struggle Nigeria becomes independent. -
Belgium Congo becomes independent. -
Independence came to Rwanda in 1962 after which violent broke out in the Hutu took control. -
It took many years, but Kenya became independent. -
In 1965 Joseph Mobutu took power away as a result of an unstable country. -
Igbo try'd to make themselves independent, but failed. -
In 1989, F.W.the clerk was elected president of South Africa. -
In 1990 F.W. De Klerk announced the end of apartheid and released Nelson Mandela from prison. -
Mandela and De Klerk were awarded the Nobel peace prize for their work in ending apartheid in 1993. -
South Africa held its first open elections in 1994. -
Tunisia yearns for a more democratic government. -
In 2011 president Bonelli resigned and a democratic government was elected. -
In 2011 Qaddafi was captured and killed. -
In 2011 Hosni Mubarak was forced to resign. -
In 2011, Sudan recognized South Sudan's independence. -
Mubarak was replaced by an Islamic fundamentalist government led by Mohamed Morsi in 2012.