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1914 |
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Beginning of World War I. |
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1916 |
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Riots in Yorubaland (Nigeria) over taxation. |
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1917 |
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Russian Revolution. |
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1918 |
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End of World War I. |
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1919 |
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1st Pan-African Congress meets in London, Paris & Brussels.
Conference at Versailles to determine conditions of peace.
Young Baganda Association formed in Uganda.
Commoners Council formed in Basotholand.
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1920 |
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Neo Destour party founded by Bourguiba in Tunisia.
The National Congress of British West Africa is founded by B. Casely Hayford of the Gold Coast and Dr. Akiwande Savage of Nigeria. It establishes branches in Sierra Leone, Gambia, Nigeria and the Gold Coast.
Calling for elected element in territorial legislature.
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1921 |
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2nd Pan African Congress meets in London & Lisbon.
Communist Party of South Africa formed.
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1922 |
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Independence for Egypt. |
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1923 |
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3rd Pan African Congress.
Nigerian National Democratic Party founded by Herbert Macaulay. (Elections of Lagos member of the legislative council, universal education, Africanisation of civil service, free trade and equal treatment of traders.)
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1924 |
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'Ligue Universelle pour la Defense de la Race Noire' founded in Paris by Dahomean lawyer Prince Kojo Tovalou Houeou. |
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1925 |
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West African Students' Union founded in London. |
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1927 |
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4th Pan African Congress held in New York.
Meeting in Brussels of Berlin-based "League against Imperialism."
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1928 |
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First Gikuyu newspaper, Muigwithania, published.
Gold Coast Federation of Cocoa Farmers founded.
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1929 |
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Youth League founded by ITA Wallace Johnson in Sierra Leone and Gold Coast.
African Organisation of Tanganyika. |
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1933 |
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Hitler comes to power in Germany. |
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1934 |
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Nigerian Youth Movement established. |
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1935 |
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Italy invades Abyssinia (Ethiopia). |
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1936 |
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Emperor Haile Selassie goes into exile. |
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1939 |
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Beginning of World War II. |
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1941 |
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Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Ethiopia. |
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1942 |
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West Africans Burma campaign. |
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1943 |
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Vichy France gives up French West Africa. |
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1944 |
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Kenya Africa Union established.
Syndicat Agricole Africain formed in Ivory Coast by Felix Houphouet-Boigny.
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End of World War II.
5th Pan African Congress held in Manchester, United Kingdom.
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