Imperialism In Africa

By Reagan Striker
  • 1400

    Europeans began to sail south

  • 1500

    European traders began to sell Africans guns and European made goods in exchange for slaves

  • They were colonizing or taking over another country for the resources it could provide

  • Europe had taken over nearly all of Africa

  • South Africa was granted independence from Great Britain

  • The Kikuyu people of Kenya began a political organization

    This happened in the 1920s

  • The only country to remain uncolonized was Ethiopia though Italy did invade the country

  • In Ghana the Kwame Nkrumah introduced the idea of Pan-Africanism

    This happened in 1940s.

  • White South Africans known as Afrikaners made apartheid law

  • Inspired by the events of World War II Africans began to seriously rebel against colonization

    This happened in the mid 1900s.

  • Sudan gained its independence from Great Britain

  • Ghana would gain its independence

  • Nigeria became independent after a fierce struggle against the British

  • Belgium Congo became independent

  • Independence came to Rwanda in 1962 after which violence broke out and the Hutu took control.

  • It took years but Kenya became independent

  • Mandela was arrested and sentenced to life in prison for his actions.

  • Joseph Mobutu seized power

  • After independence, the people in the south rebelled against northern rule leading to two civil wars from 1956 to 1972

  • Igbo people tried to declare themselves independent

  • F.W. de Klerk was elected president of South Africa

  • In 1990, he announced the end of apratheid and released Nelson Mandela from prison

  • South Africa held its first open elections in which Nelson Mandela was elected the new president

  • The country continued to experience violence until 1994 when Hutu began to engage in genocide against the Tutsi people.

  • After independence, the people in the south rebelled against northern rule leading to two civil wars from 1956 to 1972 and from 1983 to 2005.

  • In 2010, people in Tunisia began to agitate for a more democratic government.

  • Sudan recognized South Sudan’s independence.

  • In 2011, President Ben Ali resigned and a democratic government was elected.

  • Qaddafi was captured and killed in 2011, and a new government was elected.

  • He was forced to resign in 2011.

  • Mubarak was replaced by an Islamic fundamentalist government led by Mohammed Morsi in 2012.

  • Morsi’s term was short because in 2013, his government was overthrown by the military.