Political Events
Mau Mau
a secret movement set up by some Kikuyu that began attacking white owned plantations because of land shortages. They would even force other Kikuyu to join the movement.
Jomo Kenyatta
a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its Prime Minister and then as its first President.
The Belgian Congo
a Belgian colony in Central Africa from 1908 until independence in 1960.
Nationalist party
a political party in south africa which was an opposing party during WW2
Web Dubois
Web Dubois was an american writer and historian, who spoke up about segregation.
Kikuyu
A Bantu ethnic group in Kenya, known for growing crops and was also part of Mau Mau.
Negro World
Negro Wolrd was a newspaper for the Universal Negro Improvement Association.
Marcus Garvey
Marcus Garvey a Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League.
Somaliland -
a self-declared sovereign state in the Horn of Africa, internationally considered to be part of Somalia
African National Congress
a group of people coming together to bring all Africans together as one to defend their rights and freedom
Nnamdi Azikewe
Nnamdi Azikewe a Nigerian statesman and political leader who served as the first President of Nigeria from 1963 to 1966.
Gold coast
a former Biritsh colony in West Africa, known today as the Republic of Ghana
Pan-Africanism Movement
The Pan-Africanism movement was a movement created to unify the Africans to fight off colonization.
Patrice Lumumba
a Congolese politician and independence leader who served as the first Prime Minister of the independent Democratic Republic of the Congo. Who also played a significant role in the gaining of independence and formation of the Republic of Congo.
Jospeh Mobutu
A Belgian Congolese who seized power for 32 years as politician who later joined Lumumba's Congolese National Movement. His support for Lumumba created tension between him and his citizens, and as a result, he was thrown out of power by a strong rebellion back in 1997