Title: Sub-Saharan Africa | Modern History
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Content: During the war, many Africans fought for the Allies and were promised independence in return. When these promises didn’t materialize, anti-colonial movements gained steam across the region just as former colonial powers like the United Kingdom and France emerged from the war significantly weakened. New international bodies like the United Nations, founded in 1945, put forth principles like universal human rights and self-determination, which states that countries have a right to govern themselves. As these ideas mixed with the nationalist, anti-colonial sentiments already brewing in the region, a wave of independence movements swept across sub-Saharan Africa. In 1960 alone, seventeen African countries declared independence and joined the United Nations. Time Magazine cover illustration depicts independence activist Tom Mboya, a founding father of the Republic of Kenya, published March 7, 1960. Show Caption
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Pan-Africanism Inspires Organization of African Unity
Organization of African Unity holds first session of its Health, Sanitation, and Nutrition commission in Alexandria, Egypt on January 11, 1964. Source: Getty Images
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Pan-Africanism is an ideology, over two hundred years old, that Africans both in and outside Africa share a common history and future, no matter where they live. During colonization, Black intellectuals across the United States, the Caribbean, Europe, and Africa called for solidarity and unity, on the belief that Africans could liberate themselves onl