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O. H. Morris of the British Ministry of Colonies predicted in early January that "1960 will be a year of Africa". [1] 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 ...
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Students in the 1960s and 1970s began to organise into student activist groups, some of which opposed the Houphouet-Boigny regime. In 1969, the regime helped found the Students and Pupils Movement of Côte d'Ivoire ( French : Mouvement des Etudiants et Elèves de Côte d'Ivoire or MEECI), an organization of students and pupils.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... 1800–1960: First Republic: 1960–1979: ... Political map of West Africa in 1625. Modern Nigeria includes ...
20 September – Dahomey, Upper Volta, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of the Congo (Leopoldville), Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville), Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Madagascar, Niger, Somalia, Togo, Mali and Senegal obtain membership in the United Nations.
In the 1960s, mercenaries in Africa were able to influence conflicts in favor of the governments employing them. These mercenary companies' experience was influential in the Angolan Civil War. [2] [3] The careers of many famous mercenaries of the 20th century began in the Congo. Modern ideas and stereotypes about mercenaries have been formed ...
Category: 1960s in Africa by city. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... 1960s in Addis Ababa (3 P)
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.