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Colonized people in Africa and Asia began to launch independence movements.
Europeans heavily colonized many of the different countries in Africa. During the time of the cold war, there was a string of independence movements from many of the different countries in Africa with Libya being the first in 1952.
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Ghana was the first region in the South of Africa to gain freedom.
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It damaged the colonial powers' control over the area. In some cases, it started rebellions. Imperial powers were forced to come to terms with the fact that independence movements were starting and they wouldn't always have peaceful colonies.
There is no single answer to that. Africa is a continent, not a country. Africa consists of over 50 different countries. Many were occupied by different European countries, and so individual African countries gained independence from different countries at different times.
The people of Africa gained some of their independence from countries like Great Britain. These countries occupied much of Africa and created colonies there.
Africa is made up of many countries, so there is no one day.
Colonization of Africa was richly profitable for European colonial powers, at least at first. Eventually, colonization proves to carry a high cost, in terms of having to deal with independence movements and revolutions.
Some French colonies had strong independence movements.