Africa Timeline 13 - Timeline Help

Africa Timeline 13 of 22 from 1961 to 1965 at Timeline Help.

- 1961 - 1962 - 1962 - 1966 - 1962 - 1975 - 1963 - 1968 - 1963 - 1964 - 1978 - 1964 - 1985 - 1964 - 1991 - 1964 - 1965 - 1979

South Africa becomes Republic of South Africa. British Cameroon merges with the Republic of Cameroon to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon. Republic of Sierra Leone and Tanganyika become independent. Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola - Party of Labour (MPLA) and National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) guerrilla against the Portugese for independence. Prime Minister Patrice Émery Lumumba of Congo (Zaire) is assassinated. Decolonization starts in the previous chronology, and is continued in Africa Timeline 13: People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, Republic of Burundi, Republic of Rwanda, and Republic of Uganda become independent. Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie annexes Eritrea. Nelson Mandela is arrested in South Africa. Apollo Milton Opeto Obote Prime Minister of Uganda. Independence war by the Liberation Front of Mozambique (FRELIMO). Alphonse Massemba-Debat President Congo Brazzaville. Zanzibar becomes independent. Organisation of African Unity (OAU) is established. Republic of Kenya becomes independent. Southern province Katanga (Shaba Province) is integrated in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. President of Togo Sylvanus Epiphanio Olympio is assassinated in a military coup. Jomo Kenyatta President of Kenya. Julius Nyerere President of Tanzania. Kenneth Kaunda President of Zambia. Zanzibar merges with Tanganyika to form the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar - later named United Republic of Tanzania. Republic of Zambia becomes independent. Nothern Rhodesia is renamed Zambia. Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island. Nyasaland is renamed Malawi and becomes independent. Ian Smith Prime Minister of Rhodesia.

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Bibliography of the Africa Timeline 13

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Starbird, C and Bahrenburg, A (2003).Step Into Africa: Elementary Level Activities Using Africa Is Not a Country.
Christina Lamb, C (2004). The Africa House. The True Story of an English Gentleman and His African Dream.
Mitchell, J (2005). Insight Guide South Africa. Insight Guides South Africa.
Meredith, M (2006). The State of Africa. History of Fifty Years of Independence.
Copson, R (2007). The United States in Africa. Bush Policy and Beyond. African Arguments.



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