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This page contains two charts:
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The year when each country became independent
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Each country's Independence Day
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The
Year When African Countries Gained Their Independence |
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1847 |
Liberia |
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1951 |
Egypt |
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1956 |
Sudan,
Tunisia, Morocco |
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1957 |
Ghana |
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1958 |
Guinea |
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1960 |
Chad, Benin,
Nigeria, Ivory Coast,
Madagascar,
Central African
Republic, Mali, Niger,
Senegal, Burkina Faso, Mauritania, Togo, Zaire, Somalia,
Congo, Gabon, Cameroon |
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1961 |
Sierra Leone,
South Africa (recognized as the Republic of South Africa,
the indigenous people (Black Africans), were living under
apartheid, and thus not truly independent) |
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1962 |
Algeria, Burundi,
Rwanda, Uganda |
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1963 |
Kenya,
Tanzania |
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1964 |
Malawi, Zambia |
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1965 |
Gambia, Rhodesia declared independence from England but it was still under white minority rule. Black Africans changed the name to Zimbabwe after a civil war they won in 1980 |
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1966 |
Botswana,
Lesotho |
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1968 |
Equatorial
Guinea, Mauritius, Swaziland |
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1969 |
Guinea-Bissau,
Libya |
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1975 |
Angola, Cape
Verde, Comoros, Mozambique, Sao Tome |
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1976 |
Seychelles |
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1977 |
Djibouti |
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1980 |
Zimbabwe (the Indigenous people, Black Africans, changed the name of Rhodesia to Zimbabwe after a civil war they won in 1980) |
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1990 |
Namibia |
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1993 |
Eritrea |
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1994 |
South Africa —Indigenous Africans, Black
Africans — free from apartheid in South Africa |
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Source:
Africa
is Not a Country, It's a Continent by
Dr. Arthur Lewin
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Independence
Day of Each African Country |
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January
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February |
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1
Cameroon, Sudan
2 Libya
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18
Gambia
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March
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April |
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2
Morocco
6 Ghana
12 Mauritius
20 Tunisia
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18 Zimbabwe (see 1980 and 1994 above)
27
Sierra Leone
27 Togo |
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May
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June |
24 Eritrea
31 South Africa (see 1961 and 1994 above) |
20
Mali, Senegal |
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25
Mozambique |
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July |
26
Somalia, Madagascar |
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1
Rwanda |
27
Djibouti |
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5
Algeria, Cape Verde
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29
Seychelles |
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6
Comoros, Malawi |
30
Zaire |
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12 Sao
Tome & Principe
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September
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26
Liberia
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6
Swaziland |
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August
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10 Guinea-Bissau |
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1 Benin
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October
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3 Niger
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1
Nigeria |
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5
Burkina Faso
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4
Lesotho |
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7
Ivory Coast
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9
Uganda |
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11 Chad
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12
Equatorial Guinea |
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13 Central
African Republic
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24
Zambia |
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15 Congo
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November
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17 Gabon
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11
Angola |
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December
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28
Mauritania |
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10
Tanzania
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Source:
Africa
is Not a Country, It's a Continent by
Dr. Arthur Lewin
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12 Kenya
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Independence
Years and
