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The phrase "year of Africa" was also used by Ralph Bunche on 16 February 1960. Bunche anticipated that many states would achieve independence in that year due to the "well nigh explosive rapidity with which the peoples of Africa in all sectors are emerging from colonialism."
Known as the Year of Africa, 1960 saw 17 African countries declare independence among other events. January. Mau Mau Uprising is officially over in Kenya.
1960 was a leap year starting on Friday of the ... It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of ...
Pages in category "1960 in Africa" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. ... 1960 in Africa-Year of Africa; B. 1960 in the Belgian Congo; C ...
In the Year of Africa, 1960, Nkrumah negotiated the creation of a Union of African States, a political alliance between Ghana, Guinea, and Mali. Immediately, they formed a women's group called Women of the Union of African States. [222] [181]
The decolonization of Africa started with Libya in 1951, although Liberia, South Africa, Egypt and Ethiopia were already independent. Many countries followed in the 1950s and 1960s, with a peak in 1960 with the Year of Africa, which saw 17 African nations declare independence, including a large part of French West Africa. Most of the remaining ...
19 – The South West Africa People's Organisation (SWAPO) is founded in Windhoek, South West Africa. May. 4 – Robert Sobukwe, President of the Pan Africanist Congress, is sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for incitement of black Africans to urge the repeal of pass laws. 6 – Umhlobo Wenene FM is founded. July
Front page of Die Transvaler, 7 October 1960, announcing republican victory by 70,000 votes. A referendum on becoming a republic was held in South Africa on 5 October 1960. . The Afrikaner-dominated right-wing National Party, which had come to power in 1948, was avowedly republican and regarded the position of Queen Elizabeth II as the South African monarch as a relic of British imperialism.