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European political control of Africa was of very brief duration in terms of the entire history of the continent, though it could easily span a person’s whole lifetime: and its impact was in any case very considerable. In 1880 about ninety per cent of African territory was under indigenous government; by 1914, only Liberia and Ethiopia had not been colonised by European powers. But in 1957 the Gold Coast became independent as Ghana; Tanganyika became independent in 1961; and in 1994 the end of apartheid in South Africa brought to a close all White minority rule throughout the whole continent. Table 4.1 shows the date of formal annexation, and the date of lawful independence, for all the East African territories.
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© 2000 Peter G. Forster, Michael Hitchcock and Francis F. Lyimo
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Forster, P.G., Hitchcock, M., Lyimo, F.F. (2000). Europeans in East Africa. In: Race and Ethnicity in East Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230800069_4
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