African Independence

Africa is a continent and it is filled with over 20 countries. Africa didn't have any independence. The Europeans imperialized the continent and took it for themselves. Until 1955-1970, Africa had been gaining their independence back. The French, Spanish, English etc. took over them for a long time. They used them for their natural resources and cheap labor. Ghana was the first country to gain their independence. Kwame Nkrumah was leading for the people to get their independence. He was a teacher who spent time studying in the united states and came back to get more rights for his country, but ended up becoming the president of Ghana. Another nation was Kenya. In this country, their leader was in prison then he was elected leader. This is only one of the two countries that did this. The leaders name was Jomo Kenyatta. He led the Mau Maus so he can scare the white men away without fighting them. So during this time of fighting for independence, Africa changed a lot, they gained all of their independence from the European countries except for a few and most of them got to destroy their country's names and change them to something more african and create a flag. Like Zimbabwe was Rhodesia, then they changed it to Zimbabwe and created their own national flag to show their independence for that nation.