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Starting as a low-scale insurgency, the conflict spread to most parts of the Anglophone regions within a year. [54] By the summer of 2019, the government controlled the major cities and parts of the countryside, while the separatists held parts of the countryside and regularly appeared in the major cities. [55]
The Year of Africa was a major boost for African Americans, themselves engaged in the Civil Rights Movement within the United States. [36] The Baltimore Afro-American , confident that sit-ins would defeat segregation in the Southern United States, editorialized: "The 'winds of change' which are sweeping over Africa, are blowing in the benighted ...
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 countries gained independence throughout the 1960s, although some colonizers (Portugal in particular) were reluctant to relinquish ...
Special Appropriation Act, 2019: 26: Foreign Service Act, 2019: 27: Independent Police Investigative Directorate Amendment Act, 2019: 28: Child Justice Amendment Act, 2019: 29: Adjustments Appropriation Act, 2019: 30: Division of Revenue Amendment Act, 2019: 31: No act by this number: 32: Rates and Monetary Amounts and Amendment of Revenue Laws ...
Schulte Nordholt, Larissa. "From Metropole to Margin in UNESCO's General History of Africa – Documents of Historiographical Decolonization in Paris and Ibadan" History in Africa Volume 46, (2019), pp. 403–412; Christopher Saunders (2006). "The 'General History of Africa' and Southern Africa's Recent Past". Présence Africaine (173): 117– 126.
Hopkins, A. G. "Fifty years of African economic history" Economic History of Developing Regions (2019) 34:1, 1-15, DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2019.1575589; Hopkins, A. G. An Economic History of West Africa (Longman, 1990). Inikori, Joseph E. (ed.) Forced Migration: The Impact of the Export Slave Trade on African Societies (London and New York, 1982)
3 February – Harold Macmillan's Wind of Change speech is made in Cape Town, South Africa.It signalled the end of the British Empire.; 10 February – A conference about the independence of the Belgian Congo begins in Brussels.
Day to day events in Nigeria : a diary of important happenings in Nigeria from 1960-1970. 1982. Twenty-one years of independence : a calendar of major political and economic events in Nigeria, 1960-1981. 1982. Institut für Afrika-Kunde; Rolf Hofmeier, eds. (1990). "Nigeria". Afrika Jahrbuch 1989 (in German). Germany: Leske + Budrich.