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Sudan

August 23, 2014 Marion Amanambu 0

Military regimes favoring Islamic-oriented governments have dominated national politics since independence from Anglo-Egyptian co rule in 1956. Sudan was embroiled in two prolonged civil wars […]

South Africa

August 23, 2014 Marion Amanambu 0

Dutch traders landed at the southern tip of modern day South Africa in 1652 and established a stopover point on the spice route between the […]

Somalia

August 23, 2014 Marion Amanambu 0

Britain withdrew from British Somaliland in 1960 to allow its protectorate to join with Italian Somaliland and form the new nation of Somalia. In 1969, […]

Sierra Leone

August 23, 2014 Marion Amanambu 0

Democracy is slowly being reestablished after the civil war from 1991 to 2002 that resulted in tens of thousands of deaths and the displacement of […]

Seychelles

August 23, 2014 Marion Amanambu 0

A lengthy struggle between France and Great Britain for the islands ended in 1814, when they were ceded to the latter. Independence came in 1976. […]

Senegal

August 23, 2014 Marion Amanambu 0

The French colonies of Senegal and the French Sudan were merged in 1959 and granted their independence as the Mali Federation in 1960. The union […]

Rwanda

August 23, 2014 Marion Amanambu 0

In 1959, three years before independence from Belgium, the majority ethnic group, the Hutus, overthrew the ruling Tutsi king. Over the next several years, thousands […]

Nigeria

August 23, 2014 Marion Amanambu 0

British influence and control over what would become Nigeria and Africa’s most populous country grew through the 19th century. A series of constitutions after World […]

Niger

August 23, 2014 Marion Amanambu 0

Niger became independent from France in 1960 and experienced single-party and military rule until 1991, when Gen. Ali SAIBOU was forced by public pressure to […]