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Place: Western Africa X
Period: 1000 - 1999 X
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Agbekoya Peasant Uprising and Rebellion, 1968–1969
Located in southwestern Nigeria, the Yoruba constitute one of the major ethnic groups in the country. ...
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Anti-slavery movement, British, and the founding of Sierra Leone
Europeans had visited the West African coast since the 1400s, and the area that became Sierra Leone was ...
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Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo was a Nigerian nationalist and Yoruba political leader. Awolowo was an astute ...
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Burkina Faso, Revolution, 1983
Much of sub-Saharan Africa has failed to develop economically and, due to the continued legacy of colonialism, ...
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Cǒte d'Ivoire, post-independence protest
Cǒte d'Ivoire gained political independence from France, the former colonial power, in 1960. For more ...
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Cǒte d'Ivoire, pre-independence protest and liberation
Cǒte d'Ivoire became a French colony at the end of the nineteenth century through the French decree ...
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Pan-African socialist, poet, and revolutionary theoretician, Cabral was central to the establishment ...
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Cameroon, popular anti-colonial protest
Cameroon came under French rule in 1919, having been seized from German control during World War I. It ...
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Cape Verde, independence struggle
The Cape Verde Islands, off the west coast of Africa, were taken over by the Portuguese from 1462, with ...
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War is generally seen as a masculine activity, and the historical assumption has been that women could ...
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