Narrator: In the 1950s and 60s, many colonised countries that were part of the British Empire gained their independence. Ghana was one of the first African countries to do this. It had been part ...

Land Below the Sahara" explores the complex history and geography of Africa, particularly focusing on the impact of European colonization and the subsequent rise of independent nations.

This was when the greatest number of African states won independence, giving a major boost to the liberation process for the continent as a whole. The continent's oldest independent country is ...

Today, nearly all African countries are independent and sovereign states. Some, like South Sudan, Eritrea and Namibia, even became independent from other African countries. However, becoming an ...

An introductory survey of world history in the twentieth century, with a particular emphasis on the collapse ... modernization and underdevelopment debates; post-independence Africa; China under Mao ...