Decolonisation of Africa
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The decolonisation of Africa was a series of political developments in Africa between the mid-1950s to 1976, during the Cold War. Colonial governments formed during the Scramble for Africa collapsed,
Equestrian statue of Leopold II of Belgium, the sovereign of the Congo Free State from 1885 to 1908, Regent Place in Brussels, Belgium
A Muslim mosque in Algeria
Monument to those killed in the first independence protest, the Sétif and Guelma massacre
Algerian women in the Algerian War of Independence
Scramble for Africa
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The Scramble for Africa was the invasion, conquest, and colonisation of most of Africa by seven Western European powers, which were driven by the Second Industrial Revolution during the late 19th and
Decolonisation of Africa
…of Africa was a series of political developments in Africa between the mid-1950s to 1976, during the Cold War. Colonial governments formed during the Scramble for Africa collapsed, giving way to sovereign states in a process characterised by violence, political upheaval, civil unrest, and organised revolts. Major events…
Contemporary French advertising poster for a series of booklets detailing Major Marchand's trek across Africa toward Fashoda in 1898
David Livingstone, early explorer of the interior of Africa and fighter against the slave trade
The Askari colonial troops in German East Africa, c. 1906
An Italian Carabiniere and a Libyan colonial Zaptié patrolling in Tripoli, Italian Tripolitania, 1914