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learned of the riches
when europeans began to make long sea voyages in the 1400s, they learned of the riches of Africa beyond the Sahara and began to set up colonies -
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in the 1400s
in the 1400s, africans beyond the Sahara began trading with europeans who had recently arrived on their coastlines -
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europeans
beginning in the 1500s europeans had built trading post on the African coast -
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selling enslaved people
in the 1500s, African traders began selling enslaved people. -
africa
southern and Eastern Africa were also colonized as early as the 1600s -
slavery
the slave trade was mostly outlawed in the early 1800s -
europeans powers
by the early 1800s European powers began actively colonizing Africa. -
controlling africa
several European powers controlled different parts of Africa in the early 1900s -
European nations
by 1900, European nations had divided most of Africa into colonies. -
African countries
african countries gained independence mainly during the mid 1900s -
africans regained powers
in the 1900s, africans regained power over their own land -
Britain
apartheid in South Africa South Africa gained independence from Britain in 1910. -
people started a political organization
people started a political organization in the 1920s with the goal of independence from Britain -
invaded by Italy
the only country that was never colonized was Ethiopia, though it was invaded by Italy in the 1930s. -
African independence
African independence movement gained momentum in the 1940s. -
adopted
in 1948, they adopted apartheid, a former South African policy of strict separation of races. -
gaining independence
only a few years after Sudan gained independence in 1956. -
political and social movement
Ghana became independent in 1957 -
nigeria
Nigeria became independence in 1960. -
most of Africa gained independence
most of Africa gained indolence in the 1950s and 1960s. -
ANC leader
he was an ANC leader who was jailed in 1962 -
arrested
nelson Mandela was arrested for protesting apartheid in 1962. -
Kenyon
after years of negotiation and finally violence between the British and Kenyan fighters, Kenya gained independence in 1963. -
Joseph Mobutu
in 1965 army leader Joseph Mobutu seized power name for the Congo river -
oil rich
by 1967, an oil-rich region controlled by the Igbo. -
released
in 1990, he released Mandela from prison and agreed to end apartheid. -
he won
he won the Nobel peace prize with F.W. de Klerk in 1993. -
election
look at the south africans waiting in line to vote when that country had its first fully democratic election in 1994 -
F.W.
F.W. de Klerk, south Africa's president from 1989 to 1994, realized that apartheid was destroying South Africa. -
hutu military
during a few months in 1994, Hutu military and militia groups killed and estimates 800,000 to 1 million Tutsis. -
black farmers killed
hundreds of thousands of people, mostly black farmers, were killed in the early 200s -
raged
civil wars raged until 2005 and killed several million people. -
South Sudan
in 2011, South Sudan became independent.