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The Europeans started by sailing south to Africa in an attempt to get to the wealth of silks and spices that were found in India and China.
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When the Europeans traded the slaves with America they got goods while Africans were suffering of voyage to go work for the Americans.
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Unfortunately later the Europeans started slavery with the Africans and started taking Africans away from Africa to America so they could be put to work by making sugar, rice, and cotton.
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Doing this Europeans learned more about how Africans are wealthy and their culture but later started trading goods with the Africans.
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Unfortunately during the travel from Africa to American lots of Africans died during the journey.
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When slavery began lots of the Europeans took over the country and started building trade routes
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When the Europeans took over they knew that Africa had a lot of resources and important trade routes that they wanted control over.
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Britain started by taking over Egypt to control the Suez Canal that is a man made waterway connecting from the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea together.
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Britain got more land over in the western central and southern part of Africa.
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By the 1900’s Europe had taken over almost all of Africa and the only country that wasn’t taken over was Ethiopia but then Italy divided it in 1930
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In the mid 1900’s it inspired the event of world war 2 that Africans began to seriously rebel against the colonizations.
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By the 1900 Europe had taken almost everything Africa had.
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A member of the ANC, Steven Biko was beaten to death by police.
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In 1910 South Africa was able to be independent from Great Britain.
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In the 1920’s Kenyas people set up and organization to fight for freedom from Great Britain.
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The worst country to be established by Europe was the Belgium Congo because almost all africans suffered from violence.
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In the 1948 whites would demanded blacks to work for hours.
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In 1948 white Africans know as Afrikaners made apartheid laws.
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Steven Biko’s story was then made into a song by Peter Gabriel.
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Sudan got to be independent from Great Britain in 1956.
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After Sudan got independence the people in the south rebelled against the northern ruling.
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Belgium Congo became independent in 1960 and the country wasn’t a stable, fair government place for people to go.
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When the Europeans took over they started making boarders to the different country’s and did it with out thinking where different ethnic groups were located.
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Rwanda is a small country that was divided by two ethnic groups before Rwanda became a Belgium colony, the group Tutsi and Hutu ruled together.
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When colonization came the Belgium government wanted the Tutsi group to control the Hutu group and put the Hutu group to work.
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When Independence came to Rwanda all of their violence broke out and the Hutu group took over.
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It took lots of years for Kenya to become independent but it finally did in 1963
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Nelson Mandela was another fighter but soon was arrested and sentenced to life in prison for his actions.
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The suffering of the people in Congo continued for a very long time.
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In 1965 Joseph Mobutu took over and renamed the country to Zaire. The people were suffering because of his violence and people didn’t have a very happy life there.