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Fifty years ago, as Europe's colonial powers withdrew, Africa moved with enormous hope and fervor toward democracy and economic independence. Today, most African countries are effectively bankrupt, prone to civil strife, subject to dictatorial rule, weighed down by debt, and heavily... read more
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Summary edit
A summary of fifty years of African Independence. Starts with Ghana and covers all the countries that gained independence in the last fifty years.
Characters/People edit
- Mobutu: Add a description of this character.
- Mugabe
- Kwame Nkrumah
- Nelson Mandela
- Lumumba
- Mbeki
- Mengistu
- Savimbi
- Habyarimana
- Bokassa
- Gaddafi
- Nasser
- Smith
- Taylor
- Banda
- Aideed
- Botha
- Amin
- Museveni
- Doe
- Boigny
- Babangida
- De Gaulle
- Dallaire
- Farouk
- Julius Nyerere
- Siyad
- Turabi
- Kagame
- Kenyatta
- Bashir
- Houphouët
- Obasanjo
- De Klerk
- Obote
- Boutros-ghali
- Nguema
- Nkomo
- Kaunda
- Abacha
- Kabila
- Roberto
- Muslim
- Tombalbaye
- Mau Mau
- Ojukwu
- Biko
Quotes edit
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“Leopold's principal aim henceforth was to amass as large a fortune for himself as possible.”
Setting & Locations edit
- South Africa
- Congo
- Rwanda
- France
- Nigeria
- Angola
- Britain
- Sudan
- Zaire
- Algeria
- Uganda
- Ethiopia
- Ghana
- Egypt
- Somalia
- Zimbabwe
- United States
- Mozambique
- Liberia
- Tanzania
- Kigali
- Rhodesia
- Guinea
- Luanda
- Senegal
- Paris
- Kinshasa
- Islam
- Belgium
- Katanga
- West Africa
- Libya
- Europe
- Mogadishu
- Zambia
- Algiers
- Monrovia
- Khartoum
- Chad
- Nairobi
- Eritrea
- London
- Sierra Leone
- Tunisia
- Washington
- Burundi
- Soviet Union
First Sentence edit
At his headquarters at Christiansborg Castle, a seventeenth-century slaving fort from where British governors had ruled the Gold Coast for fifty years, Sir Charles Arden-Clarke awoke on the morning of 9 February 1951 to face the most difficult decision of his career.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Martin Meredith (Author)
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Page Count: 688
Publisher: Add the publisher.
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Page Count: 688
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 960.32
Subjects edit
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Political Science › Systems Of Government
- Books › Nonfiction › Politics › International › Relations
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Political Science › Government
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Political Science › Political History
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Sociology
- Books › History › Africa › South Africa
- Books › History › World
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