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Africa Timeline 12 - Timeline Help
Africa Timeline 12 of 22 from 1951 to 1960 at Timeline Help.
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- 1952 - 1966
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- 1953 - Present
- 1954 - 1962
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- 1956 - 1970
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- 1960 - 1980
- 1960 | Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya - Lybia - founded.
Kwame Nkrumah Prime Minister of Ghana.
The African National Congress (ANC) begins a resistance campaign againts the apartheid policy in South Africa. Haile Selassie unites Eritrea and Ethiopia. Mau Mau guerrillas in Kenya fight for independence.
Nyasaland, and Northern and Southern Rhodesia united.
The Republic of Egypt.
War of Algeria.
Julius Nyerere founds the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU).
First Sudanese Civil War.
Gamal Abdel Nasser President of Egypt.
Kingdom of Morocco established. Democratic Republic of Sudan founded. Tunisian Republic founded. Morocco becomes French protectorate. Parts of Morocco become Spanish protectorate in Spanish Zone.
Kingdom of Morocco is founded. Kwame Nkrumah declares the Republic of Ghana independent.
Republic of Guinea founded. Kenneth Kaunda founds the Zambian African National Congress (ZANC). Patrice Émery Lumumba founds the Mouvement National Congolais (MNC)in Congo.
Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) founded. The Mau Mau revolt ends in Kenya.
The independent Republic of Dahomey.
Léopold Sédar Senghor President of Senegal.
At the end of Africa Timeline 12 the start of the decolonization: Belgian Congo becomes Zaire - the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa). Republic of Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent. Republic of Benin, Popular Democratic Republic of Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, Gabonese Republic, Democratic Republic of Madagascar, Republic of Mali, Islamic Republic of Mauritania, Republic of Niger, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Republic of Senega, Republic of Cameroon, and Togo become independent. British and Italian Somaliland unites and form the Somali Republic. Sharpeville Massacre on March 21 South African police kill nearly 70 black African demonstrators at the township of Sharpeville, in the Transvaal. South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) formed - liberation movement in Namibia. | Africa Timeline 12 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 | Bibliography of Africa Timeline 12 Reader, J (1999). Biography of the Continent. Meredith, M (2006). History of Fifty Years of Independence. Gilbert, E and Reynolds, J (2007). Africa in World History. 2nd Edition. Edge, W (2007). Global Studies. Africa, Updated Global Studies. |
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