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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." [2] The concept of a "Year of Africa" drew international media ...
The military dictatorship in Nigeria was a period when members of the Nigerian Armed Forces held power in Nigeria from 1966 to 1999 with an interregnum from 1979 to 1983. The military was able to rise to power often with the tacit support of the elite through coup d'états .
10 November: Human and environmental rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was hanged with eight others. 1998: 8 June: Abacha died from a heart attack. Abdusalami Abubakar became Head of State and Chairman of the Provisional Ruling Council of Nigeria and lifted the ban on political activity. 15 June: Obasanjo was released from prison. 1999: 10 February
Nigeria became independent in 1960. From 1967 to 1970, the "Biafra War" raged in the south-east - one of the worst humanitarian disasters of modern times. After three decades mostly of increasingly restrictive military dictatorships, Nigeria became a democratic federal republic based on the US model in 1999.
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.
This week, the one-man British developer released a standalone expansion to the game titled Democracy 3: Africa (D3:A), and the changes it brings add a whole new dimension to the series.
Zaire, [c] officially the Republic of Zaire, [d] was the name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1971 to 18 May 1997. Located in Central Africa, it was, by area, the third-largest country in Africa after Sudan and Algeria, and the 11th-largest country in the world from 1965 to 1997.
Dr. Simpson will be examining more than 400 letters sent spontaneously to the Portuguese dictator by common citizens in the mid-1960s during the lecture ‘O Povo de Salazar’ (Salazar’s People).