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: This might serve to shift the international balance of power in favor of the Soviet Union and remove access to economic resources from U.S. allies. Even if new governments did not directly link themselves to the Soviet Union. Thus, the United States used aid packages, technical assistance and sometimes even military intervention to encourage newly independent nations in the Third World to adopt governments that aligned with the West. The Soviet Union deployed similar tactics in an effort to encourage new nations to join the communist bloc, and attempted to convince newly decolonized countries that communism was an intrinsically non-imperialist economic and political ideology. Many of the new nations resisted the pressure to be drawn into the Cold War, joined in the “nonaligned movement,” which formed after the Bandung conference of 1955, and focused on internal development. There was no one process of decolonization. In some areas, it was peaceful, and orderly. In many others, independence was achieved only after a protracted revolution. A few newly independent countries acquired stable governments almost immediately; others were ruled by dictators or military juntas for decades, or endured long civil wars.