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When Europeans began to make long sea voyages in the 1400s
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In the 1400s, Africans beyond the Sahara began trading with Europeans who had recently arrived on their coastlines
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In the 1500s, African traders began selling enslaved people for guns and other Europeans goods.
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Begging 1500s, Europeans had built trading post on the African coast
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Southern and Eastern Africa were also collided as early as the 1600s.
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Southern and Eastern Africa were also colonized as early as the 1600s
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The slave trade was mostly outlawed in the early 1800s, Europeans interference in Africa continued
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By the early 1800s, Europeans powers began actively colonizing Africa
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In the 1900s, Africans regained power over their own lands
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By 1900, Europeans nations had divided most of Africa into colonies
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In South Africa, independence came early as 1910
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People started a political organization in the 1920s
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The only country that was never colonized was Ethiopia, though it was invaded by Italy in the 1930s
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African independence movements gained momentum in the 1940s
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In 1948, they adopted apartheid, a farmer South African policy of strict separation of races.
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Only a few years after Sudan gained independence in 1956, southerners rebelled against northern rule.
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Ghana became independent in 1957
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Nigeria became independence in 1960
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Belgium abruptly granted independence to the Belgium Congo in 1960
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Nelson Mandela was an ANC leader who was jailed in 1962
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Kenya gained independence in 1963
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In 1965, army leader Joseph Mobutu seized power and changed the country's name to Zaire (zah eer), after a traditional name for the Congo River.
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By 1967, an oil-rich region controlled by the Igbo (IG both, also called Ibo) ethnic group attempted to leave Nigeria.
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In 1994, South Africans of all races voted together and Mandela became president.
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Civil wars raged until 2005 and killed several million people
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In 2011, South Sudan became independence
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king of Morocco issued a new constitution that voters approved in 2011.
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Qaddafi was killed in October of 2011.
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Arab Spring protests forced him to resign in 2011
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Egyptians elected an Islamist president, Mohammed Morsi, in 2012.