from the mid-1950s through the mid-1960s
South Africa
South Africa.
Liberia
European colonists had better weapons.
They were upset that they did not gain independence
Ghana. It was the first subsaharan country to gain independence in 1957. No civil war or violence for 55 years
The people of Africa gained some of their independence from countries like Great Britain. These countries occupied much of Africa and created colonies there.
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.
Ghana was the first region in the South of Africa to gain freedom.
European powers were no longer able to afford the recourses to maintain control of their african countries
From South Africa.
South Africa was the last to gain independence in 1994. Eritrea was second to last in 1993.
This question is not straightforward, it should be specific, by asking in particularly, how various conquered territories in Africa gained independence one after the other. A continent contains countries with separate, sovereign and socio-economic state-hoods. The long and short of this succinct and word-economic explication is that Africa did not, all of a sudden, gain independence as a whole.
South Sudan
Gold Coast
The 60sExamples:Ghana· Independence from Britain in 1957Kenya· Independence from Britain in 1963Zaire/Congo· Independence from Belgium in 1960Algeria· Independence from France in 1962
Namibia gained independence from South Africa in 1990