African Independence

1955-1975 A 20 year time period, Africa had gained most of its independence from Europe. Ghana was the first nation to be governed by Africans. The nationalist Jomo Kenyatta was a strong leader of Kenya that helped many of the countries to gain independence.

A huge reason that African began to gain its independence is because the Europeans had to much to handle. Europe was trying to keep Africa and its own country as well as other in command and that was pretty hard to do. Especially after WWII. They were in the hole and they had to handle problems within the own nation. Another reason that they gained their Independence was because of modernization. They went to school to learn to be smarter than the European leaders. Most of them went to school in other countries but when they came back they fought for their rights just like many other great nations.