Title: DECOLONISATION OF AFRICA – SELF STUDY HISTORY
Headings: 
DECOLONISATION OF AFRICA
DECOLONISATION OF AFRICA
Decolonisation:
(1) Kenya:
Mau Mau Rebellion:
Independent Kenya (1963):
On 12 December 1964 the Republic of Kenya was proclaimed, and Jomo Kenyatta became Kenya’s first president
(2) Gold Coast / Ghana:
(3) Zimbabwe (Southern Rhodesia)
UDI and civil war (1965–1979):
(4) Mauritius:
(5) Tanzania:
(6) French and British Cameron:
(7) Algeria:
(8) Djibouti:
(9) Portuguese Colonies:
(10) Uganda:
(11) Burundi:
(12) Namibia:
(13) Guinea:
(14) Morocco:
(15) “Wind of Change” and “Year of Africa”:
(16) Egypt:
(17) Sudan:
(18) Libya:
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Content: These countries also became vocal advocates of continuing decolonization, with the result that the UN Assembly was often ahead of the Security Council on issues of self-governance and decolonization. The new nations pushed the UN toward accepting resolutions for independence for colonial states and creating a special committee on colonialism, demonstrating that even though some nations continued to struggle for independence, in the eyes of the international community, the colonial era was ending. Decolonisation: By the 1930s, the colonial powers had cultivated, sometimes inadvertently, a small elite of leaders educated in Western universities and familiar with ideas such as self-determination. These leaders came to lead the struggles for independence, and included leading nationalists such as Jomo Kenyatta (Kenya), Kwame Nkrumah (Gold Coast, now Ghana), Julius Nyerere (Tanzania), Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal), and Félix Houphouët-Boigny (Côte d’Ivoire). (1) Kenya: Mau Mau Rebellion: It was a military conflict that took place in Kenya between 1952 and 1960. It involved Kikuyu-dominated groups called Mau Mau and elements of the British Army, the local Kenya Regiment mostly consisting of the British, auxiliaries and anti-Mau Mau K