African Independence

The African people were slaves to Europe for a while. what happened is that different nations in Europe came over in Africa and took over the land , they set up there own political boundaries. What they did was that they went to there land got resources to make back in Europe to sell back. It was like a big source of income. For example Cecil Rhodes took over what is now called Zimbabwe and he named it Rhodesia. He basically used Africans has slaves to get elephants tusks and rubber trees to make rubber.

After world war II the British were going to set up a government in Africa but sooner or later it was costing too much money to keep on coming back and fort. Controlling the country was being expensive so they gave Africa there Independence.