Many New Nations Emerge During Africa’s Year of Independence
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events: 1900-2001
- Categories: Government and Politics, Diplomacy, International Relations, Foreign Affairs, Geography
- Subcategories: Colonialism, Colonies, Settlements
- Curriculum: African History
- Geographical Location: Algeria, Mali, Chad, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the, Mauritania, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Niger, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Central African Republic, Togo, Gabon
- Date: 1960
Article abstract: Nineteen sixty is generally remembered as Africa’s Year of Independence. Fully a third of the continent’s colonies—including all of France’s remaining sub-Saharan territories—became independent that year, only three years after Ghana became the first black African nation to win its freedom.
A Parade of New Nations
The paths by which Africa’s European colonies became independent differed. For example, ten of the states that became independent in 1960 were former French colonies that had had to decide whether they should...
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